The Things That Were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories of the Tikigaq People.

In this collection of Tikigaq myths and oral histories, storyteller Asatchaq Jimmie Killigivuk recounts 24 tales of legendary and histotic shamans. When poet-anthropologist Tom Loewenstein began recording his stories in 1975, Asatchaq was the oldest Tikigaq resident and the comminity's most authoritative storyteller. Asatchaq saw his work with Lowenstein as a communal obligation to preserve these stories for members of the new generation who were growing up as modern Americans unaware of Tikigaq history. From the Tikigaq creation myth to the oral history of a shaman's final renunciation of his practice and Christian baptism, these stories will become essential to this growing canon of native North American literature.