Will the Time Ever Come?: A Tlingit Source Book - Couverture souple

Hope, Andrew; Thorton, Thomas

 
9781877962349: Will the Time Ever Come?: A Tlingit Source Book

Synopsis

In 1993, the Tlingit tribes and clans convened a landmark conferences in Haines, Alaska, which brought Native peoples from Alaska and Canada together with scholars of their language, history, and culture to exchange information and develop a collaborative agenda for future research and policy initiatives. This volume represents the fruits of that unique exchange and collaboration. It includes origial contributions by Native and non-Native scholars alike on a variety of key topics, including Tlingit historiography, migrations, warfare, kinship and property tenure, language and literacy, ethnogeography and cultural resource management, subsistence, and naming. Bridging past and future, this source book fills an important niche in the literature and is designed especially to be accessible to all students of Tlingit culture.

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