Author: Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Kin-da-shon's Wife
Author: Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Kin-da-shon's Wife
Author: Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Kin-da-shon's Wife
Author: Caroline MacCoy White Willard
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Across the Shaman's River
Author: Daniel Lee Henry
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602233306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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The story of one of Alaska’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the territory. This Native American tribe was viewed by European and American outsiders as the last wild tribe and a frustrating impediment to access. Missionaries and prospectors alike had widely failed to bring the Tlingit into their power. Yet, when naturalist John Muir arrived in 1879, accompanied by a fiery preacher, it only took a speech about “brotherhood”—and some encouragement from the revered local shaman Skandoo’o—to finally transform these “hostile heathens.” Using Muir’s original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman’s River reveals how Muir’s famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region’s Native Americans. “The product of three decades of thought, research, and attentive listening. . . . Henry shines a bright light on events that have long been shadowy, half-known. . . . Now, thanks to careful scholarship and his access to Tlingit oral history, we are given a different perspective on familiar events: we are inside the Tlingit world, looking out at the changes happening all around them.” —Alaska History
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602233306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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The story of one of Alaska’s last Indigenous strongholds, shut off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and a naturalist. Tucked in the corner of Southeast Alaska, the Tlingits had successfully warded off the Anglo influences that had swept into other corners of the territory. This Native American tribe was viewed by European and American outsiders as the last wild tribe and a frustrating impediment to access. Missionaries and prospectors alike had widely failed to bring the Tlingit into their power. Yet, when naturalist John Muir arrived in 1879, accompanied by a fiery preacher, it only took a speech about “brotherhood”—and some encouragement from the revered local shaman Skandoo’o—to finally transform these “hostile heathens.” Using Muir’s original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman’s River reveals how Muir’s famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region’s Native Americans. “The product of three decades of thought, research, and attentive listening. . . . Henry shines a bright light on events that have long been shadowy, half-known. . . . Now, thanks to careful scholarship and his access to Tlingit oral history, we are given a different perspective on familiar events: we are inside the Tlingit world, looking out at the changes happening all around them.” —Alaska History
Kin-Da-Shon's Wife; an Alaskan Story
Author: Eugene S. Willard
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230231280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. CROSS-PURPOSES. "'1*0 take another wife has been long in your heart, my husband. Why?" Ka-kee is no little surprised at the question. He has several times in the course of their married life spoken of taking an assistant for his wife, but she met the suggestion always with indifference, or with a touch of ridicule or anger. Circumstances have not wholly favored his scheme, and his domestic relations have been so entirely comfortable that he has hesitated about increasing his importance at the cost of peace. It is near the close of the fourth day of mourning for Chief Kood-wot that Sa-allie, after much deliberation and growing self-approval, has entered on the task of appearing to yield to her husband's ambition, and at the same time to shrewdly bring about just what she herself now most truly desires. "So much you have talked about this thing I'd like to know what you want a wife for. Is it because I don't scold enough? If that is it you will never have to ask for any more of the sweet bitterness--if you A'ill just take a Wife who will bring plenty of blankets with her. She won't let any of us forget that she brought them, and it won't be long, either, before she will think she brought us all we have. Is it a rich wife you want, Ka-kee?" "No; I can't say that I have thought so much of what she would bring me," hesitatingly answered the husband. "Is it for work ?--for gaining trade with the Stick peopie, maybe? I say, Ka-kee, her friends will give you more trouble than the trade is worth, and they will cost you more than she can ever gain for you." "I know that. I would not have a Stick woman, but a man is worth more among his own people if he has more than one wife; and if she were of the right sort, Sa-allie, she...
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230231280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. CROSS-PURPOSES. "'1*0 take another wife has been long in your heart, my husband. Why?" Ka-kee is no little surprised at the question. He has several times in the course of their married life spoken of taking an assistant for his wife, but she met the suggestion always with indifference, or with a touch of ridicule or anger. Circumstances have not wholly favored his scheme, and his domestic relations have been so entirely comfortable that he has hesitated about increasing his importance at the cost of peace. It is near the close of the fourth day of mourning for Chief Kood-wot that Sa-allie, after much deliberation and growing self-approval, has entered on the task of appearing to yield to her husband's ambition, and at the same time to shrewdly bring about just what she herself now most truly desires. "So much you have talked about this thing I'd like to know what you want a wife for. Is it because I don't scold enough? If that is it you will never have to ask for any more of the sweet bitterness--if you A'ill just take a Wife who will bring plenty of blankets with her. She won't let any of us forget that she brought them, and it won't be long, either, before she will think she brought us all we have. Is it a rich wife you want, Ka-kee?" "No; I can't say that I have thought so much of what she would bring me," hesitatingly answered the husband. "Is it for work ?--for gaining trade with the Stick peopie, maybe? I say, Ka-kee, her friends will give you more trouble than the trade is worth, and they will cost you more than she can ever gain for you." "I know that. I would not have a Stick woman, but a man is worth more among his own people if he has more than one wife; and if she were of the right sort, Sa-allie, she...
Life and Light for Woman
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Class List
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Finding List of English Prose Fiction
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Public Opinion
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Languages : en
Pages : 654
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