Sharing Our Knowledge

Sergei Kan is a professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is the editor and author of several books, including Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska; Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries; and Symbolic Immortality: Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century. Kan visits southeastern Alaska regularly and has been actively involved in organizing periodic Tlingit clan conferences. Steve Henrikson is a curator of collections at the Alaska State Museum and is an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. He specializes in Tlingit material culture and art. Henrikson has lived in Juneau, Alaska, for many years.

 

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Introduction

Sergei Kan

Part 1. Our Elders and Teachers

1. Shotridge in Philadelphia: Representing Native Alaskan Peoples to East Coast Audiences

Robert W. Preucel

2. Louis Shotridge: Preserver of Tlingit History and Culture

Lucy Fowler Williams

3. This Is Kuxaankutaan’s (Dr. Frederica de Laguna’s) Song

Chew Shaa (Elaine Abraham) and Daxootsu (Judith Ramos)

4. Mark Jacobs Jr./Gusht’ei’héen (1923–2005)

Harold Jacobs

5. X’eigaa Kaa (Tlingit Warrior)

Harold Jacobs

6. Mark Jacobs Jr./Gusht’eihéen: My Teacher, Friend, and Older Brother

Sergei Kan

7. World War II Scuttlebutt: Naval Section Bases, Southeast Alaska

Mark Jacobs Jr.

8. Poems by Andrew Hope III

Introduced by Ishmael Hope

9. As Long as the Work Gets Done

Peter Metcalfe

10. Revival and Survival: Two Lifetimes in Tlingit

Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer

Part 2. Native History

11. Tlingit Interaction with Other Native Alaskan and Northwest Coast Ethnic Groups before and during the Russian Era

Elena Piterskaya

12. Relating Deep Genealogies, Traditional History, and Early Documentary Records in Southeast Alaska: Questions, Problems, and Progress

Judith Berman

13. Whose Justice? Traditional Tlingit Law and the Deady Code

Diane Purvis

14. Bringing to Light a Counternarrative of Our History: B. A. Haldane, Nineteenth-Century Tsimshian Photographer

Mique’l Icesis Dangeli

Part 3. Subsistence, Natural Resources, and Ethnogeography

15. Haida and Tlingit Use of Seabirds from the Forrester Islands, Southeast Alaska

Madonna L. Moss

16. Deiki Noow: Tlingit Cultural Heritage in the Hazy Islands

Steve J. Langdon

17. Place as Education’s Source

Thomas F. Thornton

Part 4. Material Culture, Art, and Tourism

18. Skidegate Haida House Models

Robin K. Wright

19. The Evolution of Tlingit Daggers

Ashley Verplank McClelland

20. Tourists and Collectors: The New Market for Tlingit and Haida Jewelry at the Turn of the Century

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

21. Opening the Drawer: Unpacking Tlingit Beadwork in Museum Collections and Beyond

Megan A. Smetzer

22. Balancing Protocol and Law for Intellectual Property: Examples and Ethical Dilemmas from the Northwest Coast Art Market

Alexis C. Bunten

Part 5. Repatriation

23. A Killer Whale Comes Home: Neil Kúxdei woogoot, Kéet S’aaxw, Mark Jacobs Jr., and the Repatriation of a Clan Crest Hat from the Smithsonian Institution

R. Eric Hollinger and Harold Jacobs

24. Building New Relationships with Tlingit Clans: Potlatch Loans, NAGPRA, and the Penn Museum

Stacey O. Espenlaub

Appendix

Contributors

Index