Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native EldersThe life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith and Annie Ned are three remarkable and gifted women of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry who were born in the southern Yukon Territory around the turn of the century. Their life stories tell us as much about the present as about the past, as much about ideas of community as about individual experience; they call our attention to the diverse ways humans formulate such linkages. |
Contents
Life History and Life Stories | 1 |
Angela Sidney Introduction | 21 |
Our Shagóon Our Family History | 37 |
How the World Began | 42 |
My Parents | 50 |
Stories from My Parents Time | 53 |
Childhood | 66 |
Stories from Childhood | 73 |
Thinking with Shagoon | 146 |
Kitty Smith Introduction | 159 |
Our Family History | 175 |
Origins and Transformations | 179 |
My Husbands People | 186 |
The Dangers of Distance | 190 |
Childhood | 201 |
Stories from Childhood | 205 |
Childhood Travels 19121915 | 79 |
Stories and Place Names | 86 |
Potlatches | 91 |
A Potlatch Song | 94 |
Becoming a Woman | 98 |
The Stolen Woman 1 | 102 |
Getting Married | 111 |
The Stolen Woman 2 | 117 |
Marriage and Children | 128 |
Kaaxachgóok | 139 |
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Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders Julie Cruikshank Limited preview - 1992 |
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