Tlingit Tales, Potlatch and Totem Pole

Lorle K. Harris compiled these tales, told by Robert Zuboff, eighty-year-old chief of the Beaver Clan at Angoon, Admiralty Island, who spent hours sharing tribal lore with the children. These tales picture the atmosphere of the Tlingit culture far more vividly than a textbook can. They are meant to instruct, inform, and warn, and as such have been a valuable tool in the education of the Native American for eons of time.