Patagonia and Yag�n storytelling slideshow presentation with author Jacqueline Windh

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Sunday, April 13th, 2014
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Jacqueline Windh, BSc, MFA, PhD, shares a fascinating slideshow about Patagonia and the storytelling of the native Yag�n people, and her translation of Cristina Z�rraga's book of Yag�n stories, Hai kur mam�u čis.

Hai kur mam�u čis, or �I want to tell you a story,� is how the Yag�n (or Y�mana) people of southernmost Patagonia used to refer to their story-telling.


Hai kur mam�u čis is the time when the birds used to be humans, and perhaps also the time before there was an understanding of all that exists, of even ourselves. The deeds in these stories � the values and anti-values, the tricks and heroic actions � all lead to the transformations, to the idea of some sort of beginning.


Hai kur mam�u čis is ancient wisdom, stories passed down orally since the beginning of time by the ancestors, and passed down today through the voices of the grandmothers �rsula Calder�n and Cristina Calder�n.