My Old People Say: An Ethnographic Survey of Southern Yukon Territory, Part 2National Museum of Man ; available from National Museums of Canada, 1975 - Indians of North America - 637 pages This study of the traditional way of life of Indian bands in the southern Yukon includes Tutchone, Tagish and Tlingit groups and covers life style, kinship, moiety and sib, authority and control of resources, and beliefs, with a glossary of native terms in several languages. |
Contents
Part 2 | 325 |
The Round of Life | 341 |
Tagish Life Cycle | 349 |
Copyright | |
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Aishihik Angoon animal Athabascan Atlin baby beaver brother Burwash Landing camp cAnkukedi caribou Champagne Chapter chief child Chilkat Chilkat Pass coast coastal Tlingit Crow moiety dance daqlawedi daughter decitan doctor Emmons father father's sister fish Fort Selkirk furs ganaxadi ganaxtedi girl hexwa hood hunting husband Indians informant Inland Tlingit interior k'uci'ic killed kin term Klukwan Laguna Lake lineage marriage married maternal McClellan moiety moose mother mother's brother's mountain Neskatahin never Nisutlin Nisutlin River Old yEnyedi older opposite moiety parents Pelly Pelly River person place name potlatch proper name puberty Ross River shaman sing skin song Southern Tutchone southern Yukon speaking spirit helpers stay Stikine story Swanton Table Tagish and Inland Tahltan Taku River tell Teslin Teslin Lake Tlingit sib told trading tuq'wedi uncle Upper Tanana usually wife wolverine woman women young