Tlingit Myths and Texts

Eighteen tales and clan histories told in Tlingit at Sitka and Wrangell, Alaska, and written down in January to April 1904 by the American anthropologist John R. Swanton, who printed them with an English translation in the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 39 (1909). The tellers include the Sitka elder Dekinak'u, the Kiksadi chief Katlian, the interpreter Don Cameron and the Wrangell chief Katishan. A reader will find the origin of copper, the shaman who went into the fire, the tale of Moldy-end, and the clans' own accounts of their migrations, wars and crests.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.