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First original Tlingit children’s book published

Posted: June 22, 2011 - 6:58pm
By Katie Spielberger
CAPITAL CITY WEEKLY
USA

When author Ernestine Hayes thinks of the stories and nursery rhymes
she learned as a child in Juneau, she remembers farm animals and
phrases like “a cow goes ‘moo.’” Why, she wonders now, should children
growing up in Southeast Alaska, a place with no real farms, hear
stories about cows instead of stories about bears and ravens?

“It really does a disservice to Alaska children to tell them stories
about farm animals,” she said.

Hayes, who is a member of the Wolf House of the Kaagwaantaan and the
author of the American Book Award-winning memoir “Blonde Indian,” has
written a new story specifically for the children of Southeast Alaska.
“Aanka Xóodzi ka Aasgutu Xóodzi Shkalneegí” (“The Story of the Town
Bear and the Forest Bear”) is believed to be the first original
children’s book published in the Tlingit language.

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