Resources

Beck, Mary Giraudo, Potlatch: Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast, Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books,  1993.

Beck, Mary Giraudo, Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural, Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books,  1991.

Emmons, George Thornton, The Tlingit Indians,  edited with additions by Frederica de Laguna, University of Washington Press,  1991.

Hayes, Alan and Diane Urquhart, The Irish Women’s  History Reader, London: Routledge, 2001.

Khan, Sergei, Symbolic Immortality, The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth Century, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Knapp, Frances and Rheta Louise Childe, The Thlinkets of Southeastern Alaska, Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1896.

McClintock, Eva, editor, Carrie M. Willard Among the Tlingits: The Letters of 1881-1883, reprint, Sitka, AK: Mountain Meadow Press, 1995, original Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication c.  1883.

Menke, Kathleen, “Hooligan Harvest; A Springtime  Tradition in Haines Alaska,” Native Peoples, Spring 1995.

Foster, R.F. editor, The Oxford History of Ireland, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
 
Olson, Wallace M., The Tlingit, Auke Bay, AK:  Heritage Research, 1997.
 
Postell, Alice and A.P. Johnson, Tlingit Legends (Adapted from Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts) Sitka, Ak: Sheldon Jackson  Museum, 1976.

Walker, Brian Mercer, Faces of the Past, Belfast: Appletree Press, 1974.
 
Walker, Brian Mercer, Shadows on Glass, Belfast:  Appletree Press, 1976.
 
Wright, Julia McNair, Among the Alaskans,  Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1883. 

And for general background on motivation and women missionaries, my Ph.D. dissertation, Healers Abroad: Presbyterian Women  Physicians on the Foreign Mission Field, 1870-1950, Temple University,  1996.