Héen Aawashaayi Shaawat / Marrying the water : the Tlingit, the Tagish, and the making of place

• Main Author: Hayman, Eleanor Ruth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2018
• Subjects: Tlingit, Tagish, First Nations, Carcross/Tagish First Nation, Water, Decolonialism, Water Legislation, Oral Narratives, Toponyms, Deep Chart, Yukon Territory; 300; Yukon; Tagish; Carcross; First Nations; tlingit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/edoc.22368; https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/22368

One meaning of the word Tlingit is “people of the tides”. Immediately this identification with tides introduces a palpable experience of the aquatic as well as a keen sense of place. It is a universal truth that the human animal has co-evolved over millennia with water or the lack of it, developing...