TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayes,Ernestine
TI  - The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir 
SN  - 9780295999609
AV  - E99 .T366 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Hayes, Ernestine,
KW  - Tlingit Indians
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Biography
KW  - Tlingit women
KW  - Women college teachers
KW  - Homecoming
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prologue --; Brown bear spins beneath the darkly spinning stars --; Wolves sing like old women keeping ancient songs --; Regret and the forest are patient teachers --; They are holding everything for us; 2; b
N2  - "In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of coming back to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and in some ways more interesting question: once the exile returns, then what? Using motifs from the story Raven and the Box of Daylight to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Now seventy years old and thinking very much of the generations who will come after her, Hayes speaks for herself but also has powerful things to say about the possibilities and complications of her Native community --
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