222 pages
English language
Published 2000 by University of Nebraska Press.
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"Nearly all of the poems in this volume are qqaygaang, narrative poems set in Haida myth time. One story, "The Names of Their Gambling Sticks," is a qqayaagaang, a story that juxtaposes myth time and historical time and establishes a legendary basis for prerogatives of two Haida families. Each poem creatively enacts a myth in a way that illuminates and celebrates the traditional world of the Haidas and reveals Ghandl's own acute sense of the foibles and great potential of all human beings."--BOOK JACKET.
"Nearly all of the poems in this volume are qqaygaang, narrative poems set in Haida myth time. One story, "The Names of Their Gambling Sticks," is a qqayaagaang, a story that juxtaposes myth time and historical time and establishes a legendary basis for prerogatives of two Haida families. Each poem creatively enacts a myth in a way that illuminates and celebrates the traditional world of the Haidas and reveals Ghandl's own acute sense of the foibles and great potential of all human beings."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- Haida mythology -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands
- Haida poetry -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands -- Translations into English
- Haida Indians -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands -- Folklore
- Legends -- British Columbia -- Queen Charlotte Islands