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Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect

Name: Haida Texts and Myths, Skidegate Dialect
Author: John R. Swanton

John R. Swanton · 1905 · English and Haida

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John R. Swanton

1905

Haida stories in the Skidegate dialect recorded by Swanton, including Raven stories and accounts of the supernatural beings of sea and forest (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 29).

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Haida stories in the Skidegate dialect recorded by Swanton, including Raven stories and accounts of the supernatural beings of sea and forest (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 29).

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Raven and the First MencreationWalking alone on the beach at Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii, Raven finds a giant clamshell full of small frightened beings and coaxes them out to become the first Haida.

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