Kar?úk
Subtitle: Native Accounts of the Quechan Mourning Ceremony (University of California Publications in Linguistics)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 31, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780520098183
Subjects: Anthropology; Customs; Indigenous peoples; Language & Linguistics; Yuma Indians; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Native American Anthropology; Native American Languages; Social Science; American Indigenous Languages; Sociology; North America; Death & Dying; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Discourse analysis; Yuma language; Anthropology - Cultural; Fort Yuman Reservation (Ariz.; Fort Yuman Reservation (Ariz. and Calif.); Funeral customs and rites
First sentence: The ancestors of the modern Quechan were created on the sacred mountain, also known as Newberry Mountain, located north of Needles, California (Bee 1983:86).