Heroes and Heroines: Tlingit-Haida Legend - Mary Giraudo Beck

Beck, Mary Giraudo: - Mary G. Beck is a classical scholar (M.A. from Stanford) who has lived in Ketchikan, Alaska beginning in 1951 when she married a third generation Alaskan. Besides rearing a family, she taught literature and writing courses for thirty years at Ketchikan Community College, a branch of the University of Alaska. Mary has an abiding interest in the Native culture of Southeast Alaska and a commitment to recording its oral literature. She is also the author of two other related titles, Shamans and Kushtakas: North Coast Tales of the Supernatural and Potlatch: Native Ceremony and Myth on the Northwest Coast , as well as articles on Native mythology and on travel by small boat to towns and Native communities in Southeast Alaska. She and her husband currently reside in Bellevue, Washington.