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The epic of Qayaq : the longest story ever told by my people /
The Longest Story Ever Told by My People is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales fr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa [Ont.] :
Carleton University Press,
1995.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Preamble: Where the Eskimo Came From
- The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever told By My People
- Qayaq's Life with his Parents
- Qayaq Associates with Birds and Animals and a Man who Transforms into an Animal
- Qayaq Visits the Umialik's Village. The Influence of Ancestors Is Particularly Stressed
- The Story of the Big Flood as it Was Told by Qayaq's Wife
- From Another Storyteller: How a Young Orphan Boy Grew Up to Be the Umialik whose Daughter Became Qayaq's Wife
- Qayaq Receives the Uplifting Influence of Ptarmigans and CaribouQayaq Visits Two Communities, One in Alaska and One in Canada
- Qayaq Goes to a Western Community at the Mouth of the Yukon River and a Tlingit Village to the Southeast
- Qayaq Visits the Headwaters of the Selawik River and Eventually Finds his Way Home
- List of Plates