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    Sharing Our Knowledge
    The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors

    Sergei A. Kan (Edited by), Steve Henrikson (Edited by)

    9781496236883

    Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2023

    542 pages, 118 photographs, 17 illustrations, 5 maps, 4 tables, 1 appendix, index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.81 kg

    "Sharing Our Knowledge is a welcome reassessment of the field of Tlingit studies, but it is also far more than that, since it breaks new ground on so many different fronts, particularly its approach to collaborative and community-based research."-David Arnold, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
    “A number of quite moving contributions. . . . Typically, the more interesting a book is, the more tangents are available to readers. This book sent this reviewer on numerous tangents. Highly Recommended.”-M. Ebert, Choice
    "A necessary read for anybody living in Tlingit territory."-Michael Bach, Alaska Journal of Anthropology
    "A welcome and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, and college/university Native American Studies collections and supplemental Indigenous Anthropology curriculum studies lists."-Midwest Book Review

    Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as well as the culture of their coastal neighbors, not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. 
     
    This volume focuses on the preservation and dissemination of Tlingit language, traditional cultural knowledge, and history from an activist Tlingit perspective. Sharing Our Knowledge also highlights a variety of collaborations between Native groups and individuals and non-Native researchers, emphasizing a long history of respectful, cooperative, and productive working relations aimed at recording and transmitting cultural knowledge for tribal use and promoting Native agency in preserving heritage. By focusing on these collaborations, the contributors demonstrate how such alliances have benefited the Tlingits and neighboring groups in preserving and protecting their heritage while advancing scholarship at the same time.
     
     

    List of Illustrations

    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 Kux_aankutaan’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’eig_aa ?aa (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
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