Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)

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The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth, is given with a fair degree of completeness. . These tribes are included: Eskimo (Bering Strait), Tlingit (Wrangel), Tsetsaut, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Athapascan (Upper Yukon), Eskimo (Lower Yukon), Eskimo (Port Clarence), Koyukun, and Koryak (Siberia). - Summary by Author's Preface and david wales