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Shandaa: In my Lifetime


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Excerpt from the Introduction Belle Herbert is a Gwich'in Athabaskan woman who lives in the village of Chalkyitsik, Alaska, on the Black River. According to conflicting birth records, she is between 105 and 127 years old. Her son died in 1964 at the age of 68; so Belle may well have seen more than 120 springtimes. People in the Yukon Flats refer to her as Belle, so that is how we will refer to her [here]. I [Bill Pfisterer] lived in Fort Yukon for some years and often heard people mention Belle and her stories. In the fall of 1979, the Alaska Humanities Forum provided us with money to do a series of recordings with Belle telling her life story. I made several trips to Chalkyitsik to talk with her; the accounts in this book have been transcribed from the recordings of those meetings.  

Table of Contents:
Preface by Jay S. Hammond Map Introduction by Bill Pfisterer 1.   A moose hunt 2.   Life in the old days; skin tents and clothing 3.   Life in the old days; hunting 4.   Traveling as a child 5.   Traveling in the Porcupine country 6.   A moose hunt; sickness 7.   Old-time clothing 8.   Life in the old days 9.   Traveling; marriages; a tragedy 10. Traveling up the Porcupine 11. Traveling around Graphite; curing by a medicine man 12. Burial customs 13. Skin-tanning, rabbit-snaring, and old-time cooking 14. Old-time household furnishings and the coming of cloth; muskrat hunting and the coming of guns 15. Hunting in the old days 16. Marriage then and now 17. Belle's marriage 18. The arrival of white people 19. Care of the sick 20. Family history and life in the old days 21. Rabbit-skin blankets 22. Family history 23. Some notable people; the coming of Christianity 24. Religion; fishtraps; the coming of airplanes; how a young man got a wife 25. Another marriage story; old-time dishes and cooking 26. Life in the old days; brush men; the coming of religion


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781555001087
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Mills & Boon
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: In my Lifetime
  • ISBN-10: 1555001084
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 1988
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 207
  • Spine Width: 15 mm


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