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The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

Six Superlative Sources

· Boas, Franz. 1897. The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. In Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895:311-738. Government Printing Office.

· DeLaguna, Frederica. 1972. Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit, 3 vols. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, vol. 7.

· Goldman, Irving. 1975. The Mouth of Heaven: An Introduction to Kwakiutl Religious Thought. John Wiley and Sons.

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

· Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1982. The Way of the Masks. Sylvia Modelski, trans. University of Washington Press.

· Suttles, Wayne, ed. 1990. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Smithsonian Institution Press.

Other Excellent Sources

· Codere, Helen. 1950. Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare 1792-1930. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society 18. University of Washington Press.

· Codere, Helen. 1956. The Amiable Side of Kwakiutl Life: The Potlatch and the Play Potlatch. American Anthropologist 58:334-51.

· Dauenhauer, Richard, and Nora Marks Dauenhauer. 1987. Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 1. University of Washington Press; Sealaska Heritage Foundation.

· Dauenhauer, Richard, and Nora Marks Dauenhauer. 1990. Haa Tuwunáagu Yís, for Healing our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 2. University of Washington Press; Sealaska Heritage Foundation.

· Dauenhauer, Richard, and Nora Marks Dauenhauer. 1994. Haa Kusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stores. Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, vol. 3. University of Washington Press; Sealaska Heritage Foundation.

· Halpin, Marjorie. 1973. The Tsimshian Crest System: A Study Based on Museum Specimens and the Marius Barbeau and William Beynon Field Notes. Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia.

· Harkin, Michael. 1997. The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. University of Nebraska Press.

· Miller, Jay. 1997. The Tsimshian: A Light through the Ages. University of Nebraska Press.

· Miller, Jay, and Carol Eastman, eds. 1984. The Tsimshian and Their Neighbors of the Northwest Coast. University of Washington Press.

· Rosman, Abraham, and Paula Rubel. 1986. Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies. Waveland Press.

· Seguin, Margaret, ed. 1984. The Tsimshian: Images of the Past; Views for the Present. University of British Columbia Press.

· Suttles, Wayne. 1987. Coast Salish Essays. Talonbooks and University of British Columbia Press.

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