DeWitt says not to forget that Raven is a trickster who finds trouble. Her uncle tells a story about how Raven wanted to bring mankind fresh water to drink, so he tried to steal a bucket from a ...

Carter says the Raven character will delight audiences. “Raven is a clown hero,” she says. “Every culture has a trickster character, the little guy who figures out how to outwit the powerful.” ...

reconfirming for Native Peoples Raven’s trickster nature and his transformation capabilities,” Worl said in an email. Oral tradition holds that Raven was white to begin with, “but through ...

Stay informed about the West. High Country News’ weekly email newsletters keep you up-to-date with our latest news and investigations from across the region. “Raven Steals the Light,” an ...

In Northwest Coast mythology, the raven brings fire and light to the world. Humankind receives agriculture from the Shinto trickster Susanoo and journalistic news from the Hindu trickster Narada.

The Juneau-based artist says the stamp design, titled “Raven Story,” tells the story of trickster Raven, who sets free the sun, moon and stars before escaping from his human family and ...

It’s a photo parade of the white raven’s greatest hits that captured its trickster nature – pictures of the bird as it relished pieces of toast and tater tots – or peered whimsically from ...

Throughout the fall, a rare white raven breakfasted at a McDonald’s and lunched at a Wendy’s in Anchorage, Alaska. Photographs confirmed word-of-mouth reports; a Facebook group that now has ...

One of the most important stories to Indigenous people across B.C.'s West Coast has been commemorated in a new key gifted to ...

And many Native American peoples consider the raven a sly trickster who was involved in the creation of the world. Ravens love to play. Ravens have been observed in Alaska and Canada using snow ...

ádi clan. The other CINHS canoe is a Tsimshian design, named “Raven Trickster brings Tsimshians to Anchorage.” It was the CINHS program’s first journey to Celebration as a program together.

It was hardly new: Ancient anthropomorphic art has been found in caves; coyote and raven trickster tales abound in the lore of Indigenous peoples; Hesiod and Aesop wrote about talking birds ...