In excruciating pain and dying in the snow in the wilderness of Alaska from stepping in a bear trap, the author meets an Eskimo who saves his life and tells him stories of long past, handed down from many generations.
This is a book you won't soon forget, as the author translates the words as close to their original meaning as possible. You'll be entranced by the use of expressions and beautiful imagery in the Tlingit language.
Published in 1909, this is a beautifully told storybook of Tlingit Eskimo legends. They explain where Raven came from, and how he turned black. They also explain where natural things like water and mosquitos came from in the beginnings of the earth.
Read by author LM Schlumpf of Alaska.