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Title Salish myths and legends : one people's stories / edited by M. Terry Thompson and Steven M. Egesdal
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 445 pages) : maps
Series Native literatures of the Americas
Native literatures of the Americas.
Contents Epic stories. South Wind's journeys : a Tillamook epic reconstructed from several sources / compiled by Douglas E. Deur and M. Terry Thompson ; A Bluejay cycle : traditional Quinault stories / told by Bob Pope ; edited by Dell Hymes ; Fly : a Southern Lushootseed epic / told by Annie Daniels and by Peter Heck ; retold by Jay Miller ; The Pentlatch myth corpus / edited by M. Dale Kinkade -- Basket Ogress stories. Che'ni, the giant woman who stole crying children : a traditional Lummi story / told by Aloysius Charles ; edited by Richard Demers and Bill James ; The basket ogress, Slapu? : two traditional Klallam stories / told by Martha Charles John ; edited by Steven M. Egesdal ; Qálqalil, the basket ogress : a traditional Squamish story / told by 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 / told by Cecilia Joe ; edited by Barbara S. Efrat ; The seal : a traditional Sliammon-Comox story / told by Mary George ; edited by Honoré Watanabe ; How Kingfisher got the red under her wings : a traditional Klallam story / told by Amy Allen ; edited by Steven M. Egesdal ; Tribal legends : traditional stories of the Cowlitz / told by Roy Wilson ; edited by Judith Irwin -- Trickster stories. Coyote and Buffalo : a traditional Spokane story / told by Margaret Sherwood ; edited by Steven M. Egesdal ; Coyote and the goblin : a traditional Shuswap story / told by Lilly Harry ; edited by Aert H. Kuipers ; The place of Coyote : two traditional San Poil (Colville-Okanagan) stories / told by Bob Covington and William Burke ; edited by Dell Hymes ; Nklík'smtm and other episodes of a traditional Nle?képmx Coyote narrative / told by Hilda Austin and Millie Michell ; edited by Steven M. Egesdal ; Coyote releases Salmon : a traditional Moses-Columbian story / told by George Nanamkin ; edited by M. Dale Kinkade. Skunk : a traditional Colville story / told by Charles Quintasket ; edited by Dell Hymes ; The seal and the raven : a Sechelt Raven story / told by Charlie Roberts and/or Jack Isidore ; edited by Ralph Maud ; Sun and Moon are brothers : a traditional Quinault story / told by Bob Pope, interpreted by Harry Shale ; edited by William R. Seaburg ; Coyote and the birds : a traditional Coeur d'Alene story / told by Margaret Stensgar ; edited by Ivy G. Doak and Margaret Stensgar ; The border monsters : a story about Salishan people from a bordering group / told by Hal George ; edited by J.V. (Jay) Powell and Luke J. Powell -- Historical events. Battle at sea : a Northern Lushootseed historical narrative / told by Wilson George ; edited by Vi Taqwšeblu Hilbert and Thomas M. Hess ; Qeyqeyší's marriage : a humorous Pend d'Oreille story / told by Pete Beaverhead ; edited by Sarah G. Thomason ; Sametl : a Chinook jargon rendering of a Saanich story / told by Thomas Paul ; edited by Dell Hymes ; Chairman Roy Wilson 's Cowlitz desanctification ceremony / edited by Judith Irwin ; Three Lillooet stories / told by Sam Mitchell, Martina LaRochelle, Rosie Joseph ; edited by Jan P. van Eijk ; Reminiscences from the Shuswap / told by Lilly Harry ; edited by Aert H. Kuipers -- When the animals were people. Lady Louse : a traditional Northern Lushootseed story / told by Vi Taqwšeblu Hilbert, based on Elizabeth Krise's version of the story ; edited by Vi Taqwšeblu Hilbert ; Black Bear and Grizzly Bear : a traditional Upriver Halkomelem story / told by Dan Milo ; edited by Ralph Maud ; Beaver and Mouse : a traditional Nooksack story / told by George Swanaset ; edited by Pamela Amoss ; Crow, her son, her daughter : a traditional Southern Lushootseed story / told by Marion Davis ; edited by Dell Hymes -- The whiteman as "other". The sailor who jumped ship and was befriended by Skagits : a Lushootseed historical story / told by Susie Sampson Peter ; edited by Jay Miller and Vi Taqwšeblu Hilbert ; Circling Raven and the Jesuits : a traditional Coeur d'Alene story / told by Margaret Stensgar ; edited by Ivy G. Doak and Margaret Stensgar -- Oratory. The two-headed person : a Colville-Okanagan oratory / speech by William M. Charley, translated by William M. Charley, Clara Jack, and Anthony Mattina ; edited by Anthony Mattina ; Funeral address of Chief Ti?lníc'e? to the mourners of a dead child : a Thompson River Salish (Nle?képmx]) oration / spoken by Chief Ti?lníc'e? ; edited by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson -- Humor. The two Coyotes : a humorous Lillooet story / told by Bill Edwards ; edited by Jan P. van Eijk ; The story of Mink and Miss Pitch : a traditional Upriver Halkomelem story / told by Susan Malloway Jimmy ; edited by Brent Galloway ; Broke-Her-Nose Woman (or the stupid daughter-in-law) : a humorous Nle?kepmxcín (Thompson River Salish) story / told by Mabel Joe ; edited by Mabel Joe and M. Terry Thompson -- Songs. Three Thompson River Salish songs from Spuzzum / sung by 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 / told by Silas Heck ; edited by M. Dale Kinkade ; Sun's child : a traditional Bella Coola story / told by Agnes Edgar ; edited by Dell Hymes ; Star husband : two brothers' versions of a traditional Skokomish-Twana story / told by Frank Allen and by Henry Allen ; edited by William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal ; Maiden of Deception Pass : a traditional Samish story / told by Victor Underwood ; edited by Brent Galloway ; Kakantu, the chief's daughter who married a Blackfish : a traditional Klallam story / told by Amy Allen, translated by Laurence C. Thompson and Martha Charles John ; edited by Steven M. Egesdal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-432) and index
Notes Includes some text in Salishan
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Subject Salishan mythology.
Salishan Indians -- Folklore
Tales -- Northwest, Pacific
Legends -- Northwest, Pacific
Salishan Indians -- Folklore
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Legends
Salishan Indians
Salishan mythology
Tales
Pacific Northwest
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
Author Thompson, M. Terry
Egesdal, Steven M
ISBN 9780803217645
0803217641