224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 31 cm
Type:
Books
History
Date:
2018
Notes:
"Netseh dae' tkughit'e', 'before us, it was like this.'"
ANTHMAI copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Michelle Anderson -- Kathryn Martin -- Gloria Stickwan -- Preface -- The book -- Sources -- Conventions used in this book -- The language -- Reading Ahtna
Chapter 1. The Ahtna homeland -- The Ahtna -- Origins -- Traditional land tenure -- Ahtna territory becomes public land -- Emergence of the modern village -- Statehood and federal legislation
Chapter 2. Living from the land -- The seasonal round 1890-1930 -- Douglas Billum -- Ben Neeley -- Katie John -- Jake Tansy -- Trapping
Chapter 3. The food: fish, animals, and plants -- Fish -- Luk'ae (salmon) -- Tsbaey (other fish) -- Animals -- Udzih (caribou) -- Debae (Dall sheep) -- Deniigi (moose) -- Ggax and Nunni (rabbits and porcupine) -- Plants
Chapter 4. Rules for living from the land -- Transformation: smart man subdues the animals -- Mythic charters: stories that set out the relationship between humans and animals -- Rules for hunting -- Conclusion
Chapter 5. Traditional Ahtna society -- Moieties and clans -- Clan origins -- Marriage -- Relations and friends -- Names and naming -- Growing up -- Puberty -- Moral training -- Marriage -- The traditional house -- Death
Chapter 6. Ahtna leadership: tradition and change -- Denae and Kaskae' -- Hierarchy: the place of the leader in traditional Ahtna society -- Paths to power -- Enforcing the law -- Taking care of the people -- Leadership and the fur trade -- Changing leadership
Chapter 7. Healers and seers -- Obtaining power -- Amulets and songs -- Divination and curing
Chapter 8. The potlatch -- Potlatch hosts and guests -- Occasions for holding a potlatch -- Funeral and memorial potlatches -- Construction of a chief's house -- Adoption -- Commemorate or celebrate a child's first kill -- Restitution or settlement of a dispute -- Recovery from illness -- Potlatch sequence -- Timing -- Location -- Invitation -- Reception of guests -- Oratory -- Feasting -- Singing and dancing -- Potlatch gifts -- Potlatch gifts -- Potlatch precautions -- Some rules for the potlatch
Chapter 9. Ahtna history before the arrival of Europeans -- Historical narratives of the Upper Ahtna -- The Ahtna and copper -- Story of wealth song and the origins of copper -- The greatest story ever told -- The story of Tsedi Kulaen, "Where copper exists" -- Cuuy, the midget chief -- Trading copper with the Tlingit
Chapter 10. The Ahtna and the Russians, 1783-1867 -- When the Russians were killed at Nataełde 1794 -- The Tarkhanov expedition of 1796 -- The smallpox epidemic of 1838-1840 -- When the Russians were killed at Stl'aa Caegge, 1848 -- Trails to the coast: Ahtna trade with the Russians -- Big chief come over -- Russian Orthodoxy
Chapter 11. The Ahtna and the Americans, 1867-1950 -- Lt. Henry Allen and the American exploration of Ahtna territory -- Ahtna trade with Americans -- 1897: a year with little food -- The Americanization of Ahtna territory -- Competition over resources -- The Kennecott Mine and the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad -- American missionaries -- Enforcement of game laws -- Assimilation through education -- World War II -- Forced removal from Dry Creek -- Gulkana -- Conclusion
Chapter 12. Land claims: Cuc'uun tsezdlaen "We become different people" -- The Ahtna and the Alaska Native brotherhood -- Land claims -- Discovery of oil and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline -- Ahtna, Incorporated, the beginning -- Ahtna and Alyeska: forging a relationship -- Looking back
Chapter 13. "Customary and traditional use" -- The meaning of customary and traditional -- The Ahtna confront the State of Alaska over salmon -- Conflicts over hunting -- Katie John and Doris Charles -- Aftermath -- Tsaede' na'studaeł, "Let's go on, in the future" -- References
