Oral Literature

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

Pages

  • Haida Songs — John R. SwantonJohn R. Swanton's 1912 collection of 106 Haida songs from Haida Gwaii — cradle-songs, mourning-songs, and miscellaneous songs — with interlinear Haida text, word-by-word gloss, and English translation.
  • Haida Texts and Myths — Skidegate DialectThe complete 1905 Haida Texts and Myths volume: seventy-two Haida narratives in historical English and partial Haida transcription, with notes and five diagrams.

Begin with the [[Native American/Haida/Introduction to Haida Oral-Literary Traditions|Haida introduction]], then enter the [[Native American/Haida/Oral Literature/Haida Texts and Myths — Skidegate Dialect|complete historical reader]].