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My Old People's Stories a Legacy for Yukon First Nations My Old People's Stories A Legacy for Yukon First Nations PART III INLAND TLINGIT 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(3) ISBN: 1-55362-315-0 Printed in Canada 2007 Second Printing 2010 My Old People’s Stories TABLE OF CONTENTS PART III: STORIES TOLD BY INLAND TLINGIT NARRATORS Jake Jackson................................................................................................................................482 114. Crow Stories....................................................................................................................... 484 114 a. Crow Makes People.........................................................................................484 114 b. Crow and the Set Hooks..................................................................................485 115. The Flood ........................................................................................................................... 486 116. The Beaver and the Porcupine............................................................................................ 496 117. Wooshkaduha ..................................................................................................................... 497 118. The Girl Who Married the Bear ......................................................................................... 498 119. Taboo Mountain ................................................................................................................. 513 120. ‘Ena’yee’ta and the Cougar................................................................................................ 514 121. The Liard Doctor Who Killed the Cougar.......................................................................... 525 122. The Killer Whales Who Danced......................................................................................... 538 123. Water from a Rock ............................................................................................................. 545 123 a. Water From a Rock (Version One) ................................................................ 545 123 b. Water From a Rock (Version Two) ............................................................... 546 124. The Groundhog Hunters Who Got Power ........................................................................ 547 Mary Jackson............................................................................................................................. 557 125. The Two Boys Who Drifted Down River .......................................................................... 557 126. Orphan Helped by Rainbow ............................................................................................... 566 127. Whetstone Boy ................................................................................................................... 573 128. The Talking Ling Fish........................................................................................................ 580 129. The First Wolf People ........................................................................................................ 583 130. The Teslin Deisheetaan Beaver Crest ................................................................................ 584 Danny Jackson........................................................................................................................... 592 131. The Two Boys Captured by Kots’èen ................................................................................ 592 Jim Fox ....................................................................................................................................... 595 132. The Iron Finder................................................................................................................... 595 Mabel Johnson........................................................................................................................... 598 133. Animal Mother ................................................................................................................... 598 i 134. Lkayakw (Dog Husband) .................................................................................................... 601 134 a. Lkayakw........................................................................................................... 602 134 b. Lkayakw .......................................................................................................... 608 134 c. Lkayakw........................................................................................................... 609 135. The Two Boys Who Drifted Down River .......................................................................... 610 136. The Sun’s Daughter............................................................................................................ 617 137. The Beaver and the Porcupine............................................................................................ 621 138. Kuyeik and Her Spider Power ............................................................................................ 622 Lillyan Rudolf (Usher) .............................................................................................................. 624 139. Old Crow Loses His Eye ..................................................................................................... 624 Andy Smith ................................................................................................................................ 626 140. History of the Nisutlin River .............................................................................................. 626 Frank Johnston.......................................................................................................................... 629 141. The Flood ........................................................................................................................... 629 142. Brief Clan Stories ............................................................................................................... 631 142 a. A Gaanax.ádi Story ....................................................................................... 632 142 b. A Kaagwaantaan Story................................................................................... 632 142 c. A Yanyeidí Clan Story ................................................................................... 635 Mary and Frank Sidney............................................................................................................ 636 143. The Man Who Trained a Wolf to Hunt .............................................................................. 636 144. A Man-Eater Story ............................................................................................................ 640 Watson Smarch.......................................................................................................................... 647 145. A Man-Eater Story ............................................................................................................. 647 146. Two Indian Doctors............................................................................................................ 649 Daisy Sheldon............................................................................................................................. 651 147. Beaver Man (Smart Man)................................................................................................... 651 148. A Man-Eater Story ............................................................................................................. 661 Annie Geddes ............................................................................................................................. 671 149. The Two Boys Who Drifted Down River .......................................................................... 671 Pansy Bailey ............................................................................................................................... 676 150. Smart Man .......................................................................................................................... 676 151. Black Skin .......................................................................................................................... 684 152. The Dog Husband (Lkayakw)............................................................................................. 687 153. Eye-Eater, or How the People Died Off............................................................................. 689 154. The Man Who Took His Brother to Death......................................................................... 691 155. Mountain Man .................................................................................................................... 692 156. Why People Came to Teslin............................................................................................... 695 157. Skookum Jim Finds Gold ................................................................................................... 697 Kitty Henry ................................................................................................................................ 700 158. Animal Mother ................................................................................................................... 700 159. People-Eater or How
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