Book
Tlingit stories
AMU Press • (23) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 94
By: Ackerman, Maria.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of Tlingit folk tales that were either remembered by Ackerman or provided by other contributors. The tales include coming of age stories, stories about the properties and abilities of animals and about supernatural beings (the KOOSHD'AA K'AA) who take on human form mainly for evil purposes. Ackerman first discusses her own background in growing up as a Tlingit child. Some of the stories, which are oriented toward children, are also autobiographical and were used to inculcate certain values and behaviors in the young in Tlingit society. Others are taken from an oral historical tradition. It is apparent that this book is a primer which is part of a series intended to keep alive the culture of Native American Alaskan peoples.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Life history materials
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tlingit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Delores Walters ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeast Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Maria Ackerman, with story contributions from Austin Hammond, Sr. … [et al.]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76356791ac
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tlingit Indians