Description
Book SynopsisPresents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names. Documenting and analyzing more than 3,000 Tlingit, Haida, and other Native names on the land, this book highlights their descriptive force and cultural significance.
Trade Review". . . a remarkable contribution to a growing scholarship on the importance of place in Native American communities . . . and should serve as a model for future research concerning the preservation of indigenous place names."
-- Shawn Bailey * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *
". . . a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. . . . the most comprehensive study of its kind."
* SitNews *
"A rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live."
-- Amy Fletcher * Juneau Empire *
Table of ContentsA Note to the Reader / Harold P. Martin
Foreword: People of the Land / Rosita Worl
Introduction, by Thomas F. Thornton
1. Yaakwdaat Kwaan, Galyax Kwaan, and Gunnaaxoo Kwaan
2. Xunaa Kaawu
3. Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan
4. Aak’w Kwaan and T’aaku Kwaan
5. Sheet’ka Kwaan
6. Xutsnoowu Kwaan
7. Keex’ Kwaan, Kooyu Kwaan, and S’awdaan Kwaan
8. Shtax’heen Kwaan
9. Hinyaa Kwaan
10. Taant’a Kwaan and Sanyaa Kwaan
11. K’aykaani
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