Getting the Words Right: Perspectives on Naming and Places in Athapaskan Oral History
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Cruikshank
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 1, 1990, pp. 52-65
Description
Examines the contentious role of oral histories in ethnohistorical reconstruction and discusses how six elderly individuals living in the Yukon used named locations in space to talk about past events.