Fire in the raven's nest : the Haida of British Columbia
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0887701779
ISBN 13
9780887701771
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1973
Publisher
Pages
173
Subject
Haida -- Social life and customs
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Abstract
"The Haida Indians, who inhabited part of the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, never numbered much more than 10,000 people. Yet they influenced the advanced culture of many related coast tribes, and survived in a beautiful but dangerous area for many centuries before the white man came.
The author makes a fascinating analysis of certain Haida legends, and demonstrates that many of them were methods of remembering the movements of stars and planets, while others stored mathematical knowledge.
Neither a formal history nor a contemporary chronicle, this book attempts to recover and describe what has been left of an interesting group of people, and their attempts to change and survive in a world far different from the one that their ancestors knew."--Book jacket.
The author makes a fascinating analysis of certain Haida legends, and demonstrates that many of them were methods of remembering the movements of stars and planets, while others stored mathematical knowledge.
Neither a formal history nor a contemporary chronicle, this book attempts to recover and describe what has been left of an interesting group of people, and their attempts to change and survive in a world far different from the one that their ancestors knew."--Book jacket.
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1
