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Author Hayes, Ernestine, 1945- author.

Title The tao of raven : an Alaska native memoir / Ernestine Hayes.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 176 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of coming back to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and in some ways more interesting question: once the exile returns, then what? Using motifs from the story Raven and the Box of Daylight to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Now seventy years old and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the possibilities and complications of her Native community -- Provided by publisher.
Contents Prologue -- Brown bear spins beneath the darkly spinning stars -- Wolves sing like old women keeping ancient songs -- Regret and the forest are patient teachers -- They are holding everything for us.
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Subject Hayes, Ernestine, 1945-
Hayes, Ernestine, 1945-
Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Biography.
Tlingit Indians.
Alaska.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Tlingit women -- Alaska -- Biography.
Tlingit women.
Women college teachers -- Alaska -- Biography.
Women college teachers.
Homecoming -- Alaska.
Homecoming.
Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Tlingit Indians -- Alaska -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Alaska -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780295999609 (electronic book)
0295999608 (electronic book)
9780295999593
0295999594