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Life Lived Like a Story Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders

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ISBN-10: 080326352X

ISBN-13: 9780803263529

Edition: 1991 (Reprint)

Authors: Julie Cruikshank

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Description:

Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique kind of autobiography.
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Editorial Board
Preface
Linguistic Note
Introduction Life History and Life Stories
My Stories Are My Wealth
Introduction
Our Shag�on, Our Family History
How the World Began
My Parents
* Stories from My Parent's Time
Childhood
Stories from Childhood
Childhood Travels, 1912-1915
Stories and Place Names
Potlatches
A Potlatch Song
Becoming a Woman
* the Stolen Woman (1)
* Getting Married
* the Stolen Woman (2)
Marriage and Children
* &Kbbar;aax + -'Achg�ok
Thinking with Shag�on
My Roots Grow in Jackpine Roots
Introduction
Our Family History
Origins and Transformations
My Husband's People
The Dangers of Distance
Childhood
Stories from Childhood
Becoming a Woman
From Daughter to Wife
Marriage and Grandmothers
The Resourceful Woman
Life at Robinson
* Grandmothers and Grandsons
Old-Style Words Are Just like School
Introduction
Shag�on, Our Family History
How First This Yukon Came to Be
* My Husbands' Shag�on
Stories from Kusawa Lake
Childhood
Since I Got Smart
Marriage
Getting the Words Right
* Changes in the Land
Cultural Constructions of Individual Experience
Notes
Glossary of Native Terms
Bibliography
Index