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Old Peoples Story My Old People's Stories A Legacy for Yukon First Nations PART I SOUTHERN TUTCHONE NARRATORS Catharine McClellan Edited with additions by Julie Cruikshank Illustrations and assistance by Catherine Kernan Yukon Tourism and Culture Cultural Services Branch Occasional Papers in Yukon History 5(1) ISBN: 1-55362-313-4 Printed in Canada 2007 Second Printing 2010 ABSTRACT Catharine McClellan first came to the Yukon in 1948. A graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, her goal was to obtain enough information to write an ethnography of the southern Yukon Territory. Her experiences provided a foundation for lifelong relationships she established with members of Southern Tutchone, Tagish and Inland Tlingit families. As Elders came to appreciate her intense interest in their history and culture they began to tell her narratives, most told in English, and she wrote them down. Only later, she explains, did she really come to understand the central importance of these stories in people’s lives at the time. She began preparing this manuscript in the 1980s, focusing particularly on contexts in which the stories were told. Most were taken down between 1948 and 1952 and appear here as a collection of 175 narratives or cycles of narrative. Thirty-five were told by Southern Tutchone speakers— four men, eight women and one young girl. Seventy-eight were told by Tagish, three men and two women. The Inland Tlingit stories or cycles number sixty-two, told by nine men and seven women, and one young girl. i Dedication: For Freddy, who showed the way. ii My Old People’s Stories TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... i List of Figures ............................................................................................................................... xi List of Maps ................................................................................................................................. xii Preface ......................................................................................................................................... xiii Acknowledgements................................................................................................................... xviii Introduction ....................................................................................................................................1 The Cultural Context........................................................................................................ 2 The Number of Stories and the Narrators ........................................................................ 5 Collecting the Stories ....................................................................................................... 5 Further Insights, Further Questions................................................................................. 8 PART I: STORIES TOLD BY SOUTHERN TUTCHONE NARRATORS Johnny Fraser...............................................................................................................................13 1. Crow Stories...............................................................................................................................15 1 a. Crow Gets Water ..................................................................................................... 17 1 b. Crow Gets Daylight, the Sun and the Moon ........................................................... 18 1 c. Crow’s Adventures on the Chilkat Pass (Version One) .......................................... 23 1 d. Crow’s Adventures on the Chilkat Pass (Version Two) ......................................... 25 1 e. Crow and Eulachon Grease ..................................................................................... 26 1 f. Crow and the Whale ............................................................................................... 30 2. Äsùya (Smart Man or Beaver Doctor)......................................................................................31 2 a. Smart Man and the Man-Eating Wolverines ........................................................... 32 2 b. Smart Man Freezes the Man-Eater Who had Mosquitoes in His Head................... 35 2 c. Smart Man and the Bears ........................................................................................ 37 3. The Girl Who Married the Bear ................................................................................................39 4. The Flood Story.........................................................................................................................42 5. The Discovery of Klukshu ........................................................................................................43 5 a. The Discovery of Klukshu (Version One)............................................................... 44 5 b. The Discovery of Klukshu (Version Two).............................................................. 46 iii 6. The Deisheetaan Beaver.............................................................................................................47 7. Skookum Jim Finds Gold ...........................................................................................................48 8. The Fight Between the Dalton Post and the Snag People .........................................................49 Susie Pringle..................................................................................................................................51 9. Crow Stories...............................................................................................................................52 9 a. Crow Gets Fire ....................................................................................................... 52 9 b. Crow and the Eulachon Grease ............................................................................... 53 9 c. Crow Sees the Woman’s Steps that Turned to Stone .............................................. 54 9 d. Crow and the Seagulls ........................................................................................... 54 9 e. Crow and the Big Wind........................................................................................... 54 9 f. Crow Gets Water...................................................................................................... 54 9 g. Crow’s Adventures on the Chilkat Pass.................................................................. 54 10. The People Learn About Sunday.............................................................................................55 Frank Smith ..................................................................................................................................57 11. Äsùya Stories (Smart Man or Beaver Man) ............................................................................59 11 a. Äsùya and the Man-Eating Wolverines................................................................ 60 11 b. Äsùya and the Otter Woman ................................................................................ 64 11 c. Äsùya and the Eagles... ........................................................................................ 68 11 d. Äsùya and the Bears............................................................................................. 72 12. The Seven Stars or the Big-Headed Man ................................................................................77 13. The Discovery of Klukshu ......................................................................................................80 14. Naskah Brings Christianity to the Interior People...................................................................81 15. The First Russians on the Coast ..............................................................................................95 Lily Hume and Jessie Allen .........................................................................................................96 16. Crow Stories..........................................................................................................................100 16 a. Crow’s Adventures on the Chilkat Pass (Version One) (Lily Hume) ................. 101 16 b. Crow and The Old Lady in Charge of Eulachon (Jessie Allen)......................... 102 16 c. Crow and the Eulachon Grease (Jessie Allen).................................................... 103 16 d. Crow’s Adventures on the Chilkat Pass (Version Two) (Jessie Allen).............. 105 16 e. Crow’s Fish Trap (Jessie Allen) ......................................................................... 106 16 f. Crow Gets Daylight (Jessie Allen) ................................................................... 106 16 g. Crow Gets Water (Jessie Allen) ......................................................................... 108 16 h. Crow and the Flood (Jessie Allen) ..................................................................... 109 17. The Man-Eating Owl (Jessie Allen) ......................................................................................110 18. The Flood Story (Lily Hume)................................................................................................116 19. The Man Who Killed a Lot of Bears (Jessie Allen) ..............................................................117 Jessie (Mrs. Harry) Joe ..............................................................................................................119
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