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The tao of raven : an Alaska native memoir

Title
The tao of raven : an Alaska native memoir / Ernestine Hayes.
Author
Hayes, Ernestine, 1945-
Publication
  • Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Description
xii, 176 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of coming back to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and in some ways more interesting question: once the exile returns, then what? Using motifs from the story Raven and the Box of Daylight to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Now seventy years old and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the possibilities and complications of her Native community --
Subject
  • Hayes, Ernestine, 1945-
  • Tlingit Indians > Alaska > Biography
  • Tlingit women > Alaska > Biography
  • Women college teachers > Alaska > Biography
  • Homecoming > Alaska
  • Tlingit Indians > Alaska > Social life and customs
  • Tlingit Indians > Alaska > Social conditions
  • Alaska > Social conditions
Contents
Prologue -- Brown bear spins beneath the darkly spinning stars -- Wolves sing like old women keeping ancient songs -- Regret and the forest are patient teachers -- They are holding everything for us.
Call Number
JFD 16-5998
ISBN
  • 9780295999593
  • 0295999594
LCCN
2016007836
OCLC
946461786
Author
Hayes, Ernestine, 1945- author.
Title
The tao of raven : an Alaska native memoir / Ernestine Hayes.
Publisher
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 16-5998
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