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 Taq blu 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 Taq blu Hilbert, based on Elizabeth Krise's version of the story
Vi Taq blu 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 Taq blu 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 níc'e to the Mourners of a Dead Child: A Thompson River Salish [N e képmx] Oration
Spoken by Chief Ti níc'e
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 e kepmxcín (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
