Salish myths and legends : one people's stories

Thompson, M. Terry. (Added Author). Egesdal, Steven M. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780803210899 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0803210892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xlviii, 445 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-432) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Origins and Migrations -- The Salishan Cultural Landscape -- Imperiled Status of Salishan Languages -- Writing Salishan Languages -- Mythographic Presentation and Features of Narration -- Genres of Salishan Oral Literature -- Reverence for Traditional Narrative -- The Performative Context -- History of Collecting Salishan Oral Literature -- Organization of the Collection -- Language Characteristics / Steven M. Egesdal -- Epic Stories -- South Wind's Journeys: A Tillamook Epic Reconstructed from Several Sources / Edited by Douglas E. Deur and M. Terry Thompson -- A Bluejay Cycle: Traditional Quinault Stories / Bob Pope / Edited by Dell Hymes -- Fly: A Southern Lushootseed Epic / Annie Daniels, Peter Heck and Jay Miller -- The Pentlatch Myth Corpus / Edited by M. Dale Kinkade -- Basket Ogress Stories -- Ch'eni, the Giant Woman Who Stole Crying Children: A Traditional Lummi Story / Aloysius Charles / Edited by Richard Demers and Bill James -- The Basket Ogress, Slapu? Two Traditional Klallam Stories / Martha Charles John / Edited by Steven M. Egesdal -- [actual symbol not reproducible], the Basket Ogress: A Traditional Squamish Story / Louis Miranda / Edited by Aert H. Kuipers -- Why Things Are the Way They Are -- The Transformer and the Blind Old Man: A Traditional Sooke Story / Cecilia Joe / Edited by Barbara S. Efrat -- The Seal: A Traditional Sliammon-Comox Story / Mary George / Edited by Honore Watanabe -- How Kingfisher Got the Red under Her Wings: A Traditional Klallam Story / Amy Allen / Edited by Steven M. Egesdal -- Tribal Legends: Traditional Stories of the Cowlitz / Roy Wilson / Edited by Judith Irwin -- Trickster Stories -- Coyote and Buffalo: A Traditional Spokane Story / Margaret Sherwood / Edited by Steven M. Egesdal -- Coyote and the Goblin: A Traditional Shuswap Story / Lilly Harry / Edited by Aert H. Kuipers -- The Place of Coyote: Two Traditional San Poil (Colville-Okanagan) Stories / Bob Covington and William Burke / Edited by Dell Hymes -- [actual symbol not reproducible] and Other Episodes of a Traditional [actual symbol not reproducible] Coyote Narrative / Hilda Austin and Millie Michell / Edited by Steven M. Egesdal -- Coyote Releases Salmon: A Traditional Moses-Columbian Story / George Nanamkin / Edited by M. Dale Kinkade -- Skunk: A Traditional Colville Story / Charles Quintasket / Edited by Dell Hymes -- The Seal and the Raven: A Sechelt Raven Story / Charlie Roberts and Jack Isidore / Edited by Ralph Maud -- Sun and Moon Are Brothers: A Traditional Quinault Story / Bob Pope / Edited by William R. Seaburg -- Coyote and the Birds: A Traditional Coeur d'Alene Story / Margaret Stensgar / Edited by Ivy G. Doak and Margaret Stensgar -- The Border Monsters: A Story about Salishan People from a Bordering Group / Hal George / Edited by J. V. (Jay) Powell and Luke J. Powell -- Historical Events -- Battle at Sea: A Northern Lushootseed Historical Narrative / Wilson George / Edited by Vi [actual symbol not reproducible] Hilbert and Thomas M. Hess -- [actual symbol not reproducible] Marriage: A Humorous Pend d'Oreille Story / Pete Beaverhead / Edited by Sarah G. Thomason -- Sametl: A Chinook Jargon Rendering of a Saanich Story / Thomas Paul / Edited by Dell Hymes -- Chairman Roy Wilson's Cowlitz Desanctification Ceremony / Edited by Judith Irwin -- Three Lillooet Stories / Sam Mitchell, Martina LaRochelle and Rosie Joseph / Edited by Jan P. van Eijk -- Reminiscences from the Shuswap / Lilly Harry / Edited by Aert H. Kuipers -- When the Animals Were People -- Lady Louse: A Traditional Northern Lushootseed Story / Vi [actual symbol not reproducible] Hilbert / Edited by Vi [actual symbol not reproducible] Hilbert -- Black Bear and Grizzly Bear: A Traditional Upriver Halkomelem Story / Dan Milo / Edited by Ralph Maud -- Beaver and Mouse: A Traditional Nooksack Story / George Swanaset / Edited by Pamela Amoss -- Crow, Her Son, Her Daughter: A Traditional Southem Lushootseed Story / Marion Davis / Edited by Dell Hymes -- The Whiteman as "Other" -- The Sailor Who Jumped Ship and Was Befriended by Skagits: A Lushootseed Historical Story / Susie Sampson Peter / Edited by Jay Miller and Vi [actual symbol not reproducible] Hilbert -- Circling Raven and the Jesuits: A Traditional Coeur d'Alene Story / Margaret Stensgar / Edited by Ivy G. Doak and Margaret Stensgar -- Oratory -- TheTwo-Headed Person: A Colville-Okanagan Oratory / William M. Charley / Edited by Anthony Mattina -- Funeral Address of Chief [actual symbol not reproducible] to the Mourners of a Dead Child: A Thompson River Salish [actual symbol not reproducible] Oration / Chief [actual symbol not reproducible] / Edited by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson -- Humor -- The Two Coyotes: A Humorous Lillooet Story / Bill Edwards / Edited by Jan P. van Eijk -- The Story of Mink and Miss Pitch: A Traditional Upriver Halkomelem Story / Susan Malloway Jimmy / Edited by Brent Galloway -- Broke-Her-Nose Woman (or The Stupid Daughter-in-Law): A Humorous [actual symbol not reproducible] (Thompson River Salish) Story / Mabel Joe / Edited by Mabel Joe and M. Terry Thompson -- Songs -- Three Thompson River Salish Songs from Spuzzum / Annie Z. York / Edited by Andrea Laforet -- Modern Poems and a Story-Poem -- Growing Old / Jack Iyall -- The Salmon / Duane Niatum -- To Our Salish Women Who Weave the Seasons / Duane Niatum -- Sleeping Woman / Duane Niatum -- Journeys to Other Worlds -- The Kidnapping of Moon: An Upper Chehalis Myth / Silas Heck / Edited by M. Dale Kinkade -- Sun's Child: A Traditional Bella Coola Story / Agnes Edgar / Edited by Dell Hymes -- Star Husband: Two Brothers' Versions of a Traditional Skokornish-Twana Story / Frank Allen and Henry Allen / Edited by William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal -- Maiden of Deception Pass: A Traditional Samish Story / Victor Underwood, Sr. / Edited by Brent Galloway -- Kakantu, the Chief's Daughter Who Married a Blackfish: A Traditional Klallam Story / Amy Allen / Edited by Steven M. Egesdal.