Shtutdaʼina daʼa sheł qudeł = My forefathers are still walking with me : verbal essays on Qizhjeh and Tsaynen Denaʼina traditions /
| Main Author: | Balluta, Andrew. |
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| Other Authors: | Kari, James M. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Athapascan |
| Published: |
Anchorage, Alaska :
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve,
2008.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 147 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| Series: |
Research/resources management report (Anchorage, Alaska) ;
NPS/AR/CRR/2008-71. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Karen Stickman
- Preface / by James Kari
- Andrew Balluta's roots / by John Branson
- Tributes from friends and colleagues / by Paul Haertel ... [et al.]
- Methods and format for Verbal essays / by James Kari
- Index maps and Dena'ina place names cited in book
- Part 1. Essays on Dena'ina beliefs and values: When I ascend into the high country ; Long ago our elders used to tell us things ; Gabriel Trefon was my uncle ; 'Flat rock that is embedded' (place name) / told by Gabriel Trefon ; Andrew Balluta comments on the sacred rock ; How we counsel one another / told by Gabriel Trefon ; The old lady's grandchild (or The boy who listens) ; Glacier water
- Part 2. Essays on travel and places: When I was small I went around with them ; 'Rock that structure is built against' (place name) ; The ground squirrel house ; Crossing streams ; Embedded sticks (as trail markers in snow) ; People perished at Kijik Lake ; 'The headwaters of evil creek' (place name) and the house where my grandmother was born
- When we got scared at 'fish trap lake'
- Part 3. Essays on environment, resources, and technologies: They would use various rocks ; How they obtained salmon long ago ; Regarding salmon foods ; Well-trained dogs ; They hunt for brown bear at night and bear butchering ; Moose butchering ; The sound of a crackling fire.