"In Sitka, Alaska, a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains, an aged Tlingit Indian woman engages local investigator Cecil Younger to look into her son's murder. The crime has long since been marked solved by the authorities. But what Younger unearths is a primal conspiracy to hide both
Ethnology: The Girl Who Married the Bear. CATHARINE McCLELLAN
β Scribed by JOHN W. ADAMS
- Book ID
- 111809088
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-7294
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