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Haida

Haida oral-literary traditions from Haida Gwaii, beginning with a complete historical English reader that preserves fourteen of seventy-two narrative units in printed Haida and names many of the people who carried them.

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Texts

GlossaryNames, language distinctions, source roles, and historical terms for the Haida room.Introduction to Haida Oral-Literary TraditionsAn introduction to the Haida oral-literary room through living language, Haida Gwaii, named narrators, historical print, colonial collection, and the partial-bilingual limits of Swanton's 1905 bulletin.
Oral Literature2 pages

Historical printed witnesses to Haida oral literature, with narrator-aware attribution, language-layer warnings, and living Haida Nation context.