Heroes & heroines : in Tlingit-Haida legend / by Mary L. Beck ; illustrated by Nancy DeWitt.
Material type: TextAnchorage : Alaska Northwest Books, c1989Description: xiii, 113 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0882403346 :
- 398.2/089972 20
- E99.H2 B43 1989
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Bibliography: p. 113.
--Natsilane. --Fog woman. --Gonakadet. --Volcano woman. --Blackskin. --Bear mother. --The boy who fed eagles. --The girl and the woodworm. --Gunarhnesegmet. --Related reading.
'Over uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the young to insure the continuity of their culture... It's a long way from Southeast Alaska to classical Greece and Rome, but there are striking similarities between heroes and heroines of the two cultures. For this book the author... has selected nine of the ancient Tlingit-Haida legends and drawn parallels between their protagonists and those well-known to the heirs of Greco-Roman culture.'
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