Spring & Summer 1986

Volume 4, No. 3 & 4

Spring & Summer 1986

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Preface	Nora Dauenhauer Richard Dauenhauer Gary Holthaus
Introduction: An Invitation to the Dance	Rayna Green
Some Considerations About the Oral Tradition and Writing	William Schneider
THE SPOKEN WORD *Storytelling*
Lament for Eyak	Anna Nelson Harry
Lake-Dwarves	Anna Nelson Harry
Fish Story: Karta Bay			Victor Haldane
Shag and the Raven	Victor Haldane
Story of the Double Fin Killer Whale		Victor Haldane
Haida Hunters and Legend of the Two Fin Killer Whale			George Hamilton
Ivan Durak Steals a Ring			Dick Kamluck, Sr.
A Bear Story		Walter Meganack, Sr.
Ggaadookk				Sally Pilot
The Crow and the Mink			Mary Worm
The First Whales			Kirt Bell
Raven and the Mallard Girl	John Fredson
Wolverine and the Wolves			John Fredson
The Boy Who Found the Lost			Laura Norton
Raven, Seagull and the Crane			Willie Marks
The Susitna Story			Shem Pete
*History*
Tsetsaut History: The Forgotten Tribe of Southern-Southeast Alaska			Reginald Dangeli
*Oratory*
Tlingit Oratory			Nora Dauenhauer
Speech for the Removal of Grief			David Kadashan
Speech for the Removal of Grief			Jessie Dalton
Speech for the Removal of Grief			Austin Hammond
THE WRITTEN WORD *Poetry*
Cannery Children			Mary Jane Peterson
Willow Was Her Name			Dixie Alexander
Night Without Dawn			Glen Simpson
Tahltan Country			Glen Simpson
Traveling in the Land of the Native Art Historians			Glen Simpson
Front Street			Glen Simpson
Candle Lite			June McGlashan
It is Very Quiet			June McGlashan
Dumped!			Pam Colorado
O Dark Sister			Mary Tall Mountain
Seahorse Music			Mary Tall Mountain
Nuliajuk, A Sequence			Mary Tall Mountain
Gaslight			Fred Bigjim
Ballet in Bethel			Fred Bigjim
Museum			Nora Dauenhauer
After Ice Fog			Nora Dauenhauer
Saginaw Bay: I Keep Going Back			Robert H. Davis
Sacrifice: A Dream/A Vision			Sister Goodwin
Nomadic Inupiat for Kappaisruk			Sister Goodwin
Innocence			Sister Goodwin
Piksinnaq			Sister Goodwin
Speaking Dog Year			Sister Goodwin
*Stories*
Mouse Story/K'eta Sukdu			Peter Kalifornsky
Gambling Story/Ch'enlahi Sukdu			Peter Kalifornsky
Crow and the One-Side-Human/Gugguyni Ch'u Q'ezch'en Quht'ana			Peter Kalifornsky
The Old Dena'ina Beliefs/Dena'ina K'ech' Qulyuch'			Peter Kalifornsky
Super Cockroach Tale			Tim Afcan, Sr.
Magic Maker			Buell Anakak
*Nonfiction*
Three Letters to Howard: An Interpretation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971			Fred Bigjim and James Ito-Adler
Salmon in the Pond			Randall Johnson
Untitled				Andrew Evan
A House I Remember			George Westdahl
*A Talk With Peter Kalifornsky: Sukdu beq' quht'ana Ch’ulani, "The Stories Are For Us to Learn Something From."*			Katherine McNamara