Salish Myths and Legends

One People's Stories
Herausgeber: Thompson, M Terry; Egesdal, Steven M

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Produktbeschreibung

M. Terry Thompson has conducted research on the Salish languages for forty years and is the coauthor of Thompson River Salish Dictionary and The Thompson Language. ¿ Steven M. Egesdal is an expert on Salish languages and is the author of Stylized Character Speech in Thompson Salish Narrative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780803210899
• ISBN-10: 0803210892
• Artikelnr.: 23355342

Autorenporträt

M. Terry Thompson has conducted research on the Salish languages for forty years and is the coauthor of Thompson River Salish Dictionary and The Thompson Language.   Steven M. Egesdal is an expert on Salish languages and is the author of Stylized Character Speech in Thompson Salish Narrative.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps     
List of Tables   
Acknowledgments  
Introduction     
      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   
      Retold by Douglas E. Deur and M. Terry Thompson
A Bluejay Cycle: Traditional Quinault Stories  
      Told by Bob Pope
      Dell Hymes
Fly: A Southern Lushootseed Epic   
      Told by Annie Daniels and by Peter Heck
      Retold by Jay Miller
The Pentlatch Myth Corpus    
      M. Dale Kinkade
Basket Ogress Stories  
Ch'eni, the Giant Woman Who Stole Crying Children: A Traditional Lummi
Story 
      Told by Aloysius Charles
      Richard Demers and Bill James
The Basket Ogress, Slapu: Two Traditional Klallam Stories    
      Told by Martha Charles John
      Steven M. Egesdal
Qálqali, the Basket Ogress: A Traditional Squamish Story     
      Told by Louis Miranda
      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
      Barbara S. Efrat
The Seal: A Traditional Sliammon-Comox Story   
      Told by Mary George
      Honoré Watanabe
How Kingfisher Got the Red under Her Wings: A Traditional Klallam Story
      Told by Amy Allen
      Steven M. Egesdal
Tribal Legends: Traditional Stories of the Cowlitz   
      Told by Roy Wilson
      Judith Irwin
Trickster Stories
Coyote and Buffalo: A Traditional Spokane Story
      Told by Margaret Sherwood
      Steven M. Egesdal
Coyote and the Goblin: A Traditional Shuswap Story   
      Told by Lilly Harry
      Aert H. Kuipers
The Place of Coyote: Two Traditional San Poil (Colville-Okanagan)
Stories    
      Told by Bob Covington and William Burke
      Dell Hymes
N'ík'smtm and Other Episodes of a Traditional Coyote Narrative
      Told by Hilda Austin and Millie Michell
      Steven M. Egesdal
Coyote Releases Salmon: A Traditional Moses-Columbian Story      
      Told by George Nanamkin
      M. Dale Kinkade
Skunk: A Traditional Colville Story
      Told by Charles Quintasket
      Dell Hymes
The Seal and the Raven: A Sechelt Raven Story  
      Told by Charlie Roberts and/or Jack Isidore
      Ralph Maud
Sun and Moon Are Brothers: A Traditional Quinault Story    
      Told by Bob Pope, interpreted by Harry Shale
      William R. Seaburg
Coyote and the Birds: A Traditional Coeur d'Alene Story    
      Told by Margaret Stensgar
      Ivy G. Doak and Margaret Stensgar
The Border Monsters: A Story about Salishan People from a Bordering
Group    
      Told by Hal George
      J. V. (Jay) Powell and Luke J. Powell?
Historical Events
Battle at Sea: A Northern Lushootseed Historical Narrative 
      told by Wilson George
      Vi Taqblu Hilbert and Thomas M. Hess
Qeyqeyí's Marriage: A Humorous Pend d'Oreille Story 
      Told by Pete Beaverhead
      Sarah G. Thomason
Sametl: A Chinook Jargon Rendering of a Saanich Story
      Told by Thomas Paul
      Dell Hymes
Chairman Roy Wilson's Cowlitz Desanctification Ceremony    
      Judith Irwin
Three Lillooet Stories 
      Told by Sam Mitchell, Martina LaRochelle, Rosie Joseph
      Jan P. van Eijk
Reminiscences from the Shuswap     
            Told by Lilly Harry
            Aert H. Kuipers
When the Animals Were People 
Lady Louse: A Traditional Northern Lushootseed Story
      Told by Vi Taqblu Hilbert, based on Elizabeth Krise's version of the
story
      Vi Taqblu Hilbert
Black Bear and Grizzly Bear: A Traditional Upriver Halkomelem Story    
      Told by Dan Milo
      Ralph Maud
Beaver and Mouse: A Traditional Nooksack Story 
      Told by George Swanaset
      Pamela Amoss
Crow, Her Son, Her Daughter: A Traditional Southern Lushootseed Story  
      Told by Marion Davis
      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
      Jay Miller and Vi Taqblu Hilbert
Circling Raven and the Jesuits: A Traditional Coeur d'Alene Story
      Told by Margaret Stensgar
      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
      Anthony Mattina
Funeral Address of Chief Ti to the Mourners of a Dead Child: A
Thompson River Salish [Neképmx] Oration
      Spoken by Chief Ti
      Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson
Humor
The Two Coyotes: A Humorous Lillooet Story     
      Told by Bill Edwards
      Jan P. van Eijk
The Story of Mink and Miss Pitch: A Traditional Upriver Halkomelem
Story     
      Told by Susan Malloway Jimmy
      Brent Galloway
Broke-Her-Nose Woman (or The Stupid Daughter-in-law): A Humorous n
ekepmxcín (Thompson River Salish) Story    
      Told by Mabel Joe
      Mabel Joe and M. Terry Thompson
Songs
Three Thompson River Salish Songs from Spuzzum 
      Sung by Annie Z. York
      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
      M. Dale Kinkade
Sun's Child: A Traditional Bella Coola Story     
      Told by Agnes Edgar
      Dell Hymes
Star Husband: Two Brothers' Versions of a Traditional Skokomish (Twana)
Story
      Told by Frank Allen and by Henry Allen
      William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal
Maiden of Deception Pass: A Traditional Samish Story 
      Told by Victor Underwood Sr.
      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
      Steven M. Egesdal
References and Suggested Further Reading 
Index