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Our Tellings : Interior Salish Stories of the Nlha7kápmx People.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774854078
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Our TellingsDDC classification:
  • 398.208997
LOC classification:
  • E99.N96 -- O83 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SPTÁKWELH (CREATION STORIES) -- Ntl'ík'semtm (Coyote's Son) -- Coyote and His Son -- The Trip to the Moon -- Coyote and the Three Sisters -- Coyote and Wolf -- Coyote and Buffalo -- Coyote and Wood Tick -- Coyote Visits His Daughter in the North -- Coyote and the Two Sisters -- Why Newborn Animals Can Walk -- Grizzly and the Bear Cubs -- Grizzly and the Black Bear Cubs -- The Four Bear Brothers -- Transformers -- Transformers -- Transformer Footprints -- How Chipmunk Got His Stripes -- Screech Owl -- Raven -- The Boy Who Was Abandoned -- Sore Man -- Man and Owl -- Dog Travels to the Sun -- The Country Divided -- Grandfather and Grandson Work for Gold and Silver -- SPÍLAXEM (NON-CREATION STORIES) -- The Lost Hunter -- Smuýmn (Person with a Cane) -- Why There Are Nlha7kápmx in Spokane -- Sexpínlhemx's Wife Foretells the Coming of the White Man -- Simon Fraser -- First Encounter with Missionaries -- The Coming of the White Man -- Sun Dance -- Nkw'i7tsútn (A Place to Dance) -- Archdeacon Small -- Xítl'ix (Nlha7kápmx Court) -- Old Ways -- Powers of the Sexwná7m (Healer/Doctor) -- On the Boston Bar Trail -- Listening to Stories -- On the Trapline -- Our Tellings -- Making Baskets -- Native Foods -- Trips to Petáni -- The Road to Petáni Valley -- Ways of the Old People -- Memories of Lytton -- Passing on the Knowledge -- Tellers and Translators -- Afterword -- Appendices -- 1: Orthographic Key for the Nlha7kápmx Alphabet, Lytton Dialect -- 2: Key to Tapings, Translations, and Transcriptions -- Glossary of Nlha7kápmx Words -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography.
Summary: Passed down through the generations for centuries, the traditional oral narratives of the Nlha7kápmx people of British Columbia elders reveals how they perceive their own history.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SPTÁKWELH (CREATION STORIES) -- Ntl'ík'semtm (Coyote's Son) -- Coyote and His Son -- The Trip to the Moon -- Coyote and the Three Sisters -- Coyote and Wolf -- Coyote and Buffalo -- Coyote and Wood Tick -- Coyote Visits His Daughter in the North -- Coyote and the Two Sisters -- Why Newborn Animals Can Walk -- Grizzly and the Bear Cubs -- Grizzly and the Black Bear Cubs -- The Four Bear Brothers -- Transformers -- Transformers -- Transformer Footprints -- How Chipmunk Got His Stripes -- Screech Owl -- Raven -- The Boy Who Was Abandoned -- Sore Man -- Man and Owl -- Dog Travels to the Sun -- The Country Divided -- Grandfather and Grandson Work for Gold and Silver -- SPÍLAXEM (NON-CREATION STORIES) -- The Lost Hunter -- Smuýmn (Person with a Cane) -- Why There Are Nlha7kápmx in Spokane -- Sexpínlhemx's Wife Foretells the Coming of the White Man -- Simon Fraser -- First Encounter with Missionaries -- The Coming of the White Man -- Sun Dance -- Nkw'i7tsútn (A Place to Dance) -- Archdeacon Small -- Xítl'ix (Nlha7kápmx Court) -- Old Ways -- Powers of the Sexwná7m (Healer/Doctor) -- On the Boston Bar Trail -- Listening to Stories -- On the Trapline -- Our Tellings -- Making Baskets -- Native Foods -- Trips to Petáni -- The Road to Petáni Valley -- Ways of the Old People -- Memories of Lytton -- Passing on the Knowledge -- Tellers and Translators -- Afterword -- Appendices -- 1: Orthographic Key for the Nlha7kápmx Alphabet, Lytton Dialect -- 2: Key to Tapings, Translations, and Transcriptions -- Glossary of Nlha7kápmx Words -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography.

Passed down through the generations for centuries, the traditional oral narratives of the Nlha7kápmx people of British Columbia elders reveals how they perceive their own history.

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