Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Whaling First Nations of the North Pacific Coast; "Tłan'iqoł Becomes a Whaler"; The Country; The Whaling People; Chapter 1: Making a Living; When the World Turns Around; A World Full of Spirits; Spirit Power in Hunting and Fishing; Months and Seasons; Rainy Season Work; Shellfish Gathering; "The Deer and the Wolves"; The Herring Season; Chapter 2: Seasons of Plenty; Spring; "Raven and Black Bear"; Canoes; Whaling; Drift Whaling; "Always Lifts Up and Sorehead Hunter"; Hunting Other Sea Mammals |
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"Hair Seal Hunter and Porpoise Hunter"More Gathering of Plant and Sea Food; "How Andaokot First Came to This World"; Salmon; Chapter 3: Living Together; Villages and Houses; Dress; Social Rank and Class; Feasting; Potlatch; "Kwi·stox's Big Potlatch"; "Becomes-Ten Gives a Potlatch"; Kinship; Life Cycle; Whaling Peoples' Accounts of Social Life; "Tom Marries"; "Captain Bill's Marriage"; "Tom Gives Advice to his Grandson"; Chapter 4: The Long Past of the Whaling People; History Before Written Records; Wars; "A Naval Engagement"; "The War Between the Ahousaht and Otsosat." |
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The Coming of the EuropeansThe Sea Otter Decades; Colonial Development and Loss of Independence; Falling Under Foreign Influence; Chapter 5: Spirit-filled Realms of Medicine, Rituals, Art, Music and Myths; Sickness and Curing by Medicine Men; The Ts'a·yiq Doctoring Ritual Society; The Wolf Ritual; "Origin of the Tlo·kwa·na"; Art; Music; Myths; "Q'anixi·nax the Transformer"; "How Raven was in the Woods for a Tlo·kwa·na Dance at Yuquot"; "Red-headed Woodpecker and the Thunderbirds"; "Kwatya·t's Mother Moved, it is Said." |
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"A Fight Between the Chiefs of the Lice and the Wolves about Hunting Grounds""The Whale Sweetheart"; Spelling Key for Whaling Peoples' Words; Additional Reading; References; Index; About the Authors |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Nuu-chah-nulth Indians
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Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island
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Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Flattery, Cape
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Indians of North America
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Nuu-chah-nulth Indians
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British Columbia -- Vancouver Island
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Washington (State) -- Cape Flattery
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hoover, Alan L
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ISBN |
9780772678133 |
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0772678138 |
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