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Presents the results of a collaborative project with Native communities of Southeast Alaska to record indigenous geographic names.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader / Harold P. Martin

Foreword: People of the Land / Rosita Worl

Introduction, by Thomas F. Thornton

1. Yaakwdaat Kwaan, Galyax Kwaan, and Gunnaaxoo Kwaan

2. Xunaa Kaawu

3. Jilkaat Kwaan and Jilkoot Kwaan

4. Aak’w Kwaan and T’aaku Kwaan

5. Sheet’ka Kwaan

6. Xutsnoowu Kwaan

7. Keex’ Kwaan, Kooyu Kwaan, and S’awdaan Kwaan

8. Shtax’heen Kwaan

9. Hinyaa Kwaan

10. Taant’a Kwaan and Sanyaa Kwaan

11. K’aykaani

References

About the Author

Thomas F. Thornton is professor of anthropology at Portland State University, Oregon. He is the author of Being and Place among the Tlingit.

Reviews

". . . a remarkable contribution to a growing scholarship on the importance of place in Native American communities . . . and should serve as a model for future research concerning the preservation of indigenous place names."
*Pacific Northwest Quarterly*

". . . a landmark book documenting more than 3,000 Native place names and their locations in Southeast Alaska. . . . the most comprehensive study of its kind."
*SitNews*

"A rich geographical and cultural reference, all the more fascinating for its ability to reintroduce us to the place we live."
*Juneau Empire*