The Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples reside in Southeast Alaska and Southwest Canada and speak four distinct languages. They divide themselves into a social system of moieties, phratries, and clans.
Non-Fiction Books: Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian History & Culture
Anóoshi lingit aaní ká = Russians in Tlingit America : the battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black
Art of the Northwest coast by Aldona Jonaitis
Celebration : Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian dancing on the land by Rosita Worl
The canoe rocks : Alaska’s Tlingit and the Euramerican frontier, 1800-1912 by Ted C Hinkley
Doing battle with the Halibut People : the Tlingit, Haida, & Tsimshian halibut hook by Chuck Smythe
Haa Atxaayi Haa Kusteeyix Sitee = Our Food is our Tlingit Way of Life : Excerpts of Oral Interviews by Richard G Newton
Haa aaní, Our land : Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use by Walter Rochs Goldschmidt
Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture : Tlingit Life Stories by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Haa Shuká, Our Ancestors : Tlingit Oral Narratives by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, For Healing Our Spirit : Tlingit Oratory by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Images of a People : Tlingit Myths and Legends by Mary Helen Pelton and Jacqueline DiGennaro
In honor of Eyak : the art of Anna Nelson Harry by Anna Nelson Harry
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart
The Tlingit : An Introduction to Their Culture and History by Wallace M. Olson
The Tlingit Indians by George Thornton Emmons
The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741-1867 by A.V. Grinev
Tlingit : Their Art, Culture & Legends by Dan & Nan Kaiper
Tsimshian Culture: a Light through the Ages by Jay Miller
Unsettling native art histories on the Northwest coast edited by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis
Biography & Memoir
Blonde Indian : an Alaska Native memoir by Ernestine Hayes
Gilbert said : an oldtimer's tales of the Haida-Tlingit waterways of Alaska by Gilbert McLeod
Haa K̲usteeyí, our culture : Tlingit life stories edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Keex Kwaan : in our own words, interviews of Kake elders by The Organized Village of Kake (in-library use only)
The tao of raven : an Alaska native memoir by Ernestine Hayes
Through the storm towards the sun : a personal account of life in transition in Southeast Alaska by Carol Feller Brady
DVDs
Carved from the heart : a portrait of grief, healing, and community.
Heenetiineyoo3eihiiho' = Language healers
Magazines & Journals
Though no longer in publication, these periodicals are a good resource for historical information:
Additional Links & Materials
Alaska Digital Archive: Alaska Native History & Cultures
Alaska History & Cultural Studies: Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, & Tsimshian
Alaska Native Knowledge Network: Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian
Alaska/Polar Periodicals Index
Alaskool (Institute of Social & Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage
Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Tribes of Alaska
