Another Culture/Another World


Father Michael Oleksa (Creator)
Explore the great diversity and common humanity of Alaska's cultural mosaic. . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Foreword -- * Introduction -- 1.) The game of life -- 1.1) Different sets of rules -- 1.2) Different world, different views -- 1.3) Family legends -- 1.4) Timeless time ------ 2.) The Yup'ik world: the real people -- 2.1) Eye of the needle -- 2.2) The fate of Father Juvenaly ------ 3.) The Tlingit world: balance and reciprocity -- 3.1) Keet: a traditional Tlingit story -- 3.2) Some Tlingit history ------ 4.) The Athabaskan world: the distant time of the first people -- 4.1) The salmon girl: an Athabascan story from Nikolai -- 4.2) The sleeping lady: an Athabascan story from Tyonek ------ 5.) The Aleut world: moving freely between cultures -- 5.1) Open to the new -- 5.2) The mink boy: an Alutiiq story -- 5.3) The origin of sea otters: an Unangan story ------ 6.) The Inupiaq world: cycles of life, of light and darkness -- 6.1) How people got fire: a legend from the North Slope -- 6.2) Brothers in the storm: a legend from St. Lawrence Island ------ 7.) The way of the human being: holding on to all that is good -- * Appendix -- * Bibliography -- * Traditional values of Alaska
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2005
Book/Publication
Association of Alaska School B
1
BA292