Research Catalog

Title

Our tellings : Interior Salish stories of the Nlhaʼkapmx people / compiled and edited by Darwin Hanna and Mamie Henry.

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Hanna, Darwin, 1969-
• Henry, Mamie, 1922-

Description

xix, 217 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Our Tellings is a collection of oral narratives gathered by a young Nlha7kapmx, Darwin Hanna, from the elders of his people. The tales have been passed from generation to generation, and they reveal how the Nlha7kapmx perceive their own history.
• Our Tellings gathers together two types of narrative - sptakwelh and spilaxem. Sptakwelh, or creation stories, tell of a period in which the world was inhabited by animals in vaguely human form and with special powers. Coyote, Bear, Grizzly, and Owl were central figures. Some tellings in this group chronicle the acts of transformers, who travelled the countryside shaping and changing the existing order to resemble the world we know today.
• Spilaxem, or non-creation stories, tell of the history, way of life, and cultural teachings of the Nlha7kapmx people. These particular narratives were chosen because the elders thought that they were important to tell. They range from descriptions of the arrival of explorers and missionaries to reflections on the contemporary state of Nlha7kapmx culture.
• . The Nlha7kapmx, or Thompson, people are among the original inhabitants of the Fraser, Thompson, and Nicola river valleys in south-western British Columbia.

Subjects

• Indians of North America > British Columbia > Folklore
• Ntlakyapamuk Indians > Folklore

Contents

• Foreword / Wendy Wickwire -- Ntl'ik'semtm (Coyote's Son) / Mildred Michell -- Coyote and His Son / Walter Isaac -- The Trip to the Moon / Annie York -- Coyote and the Three Sisters / Louie Phillips -- Coyote and Wolf / Herb Manuel -- Coyote and Buffalo / Herb Manuel -- Coyote and Wood Tick / Herb Manuel -- Coyote Visits His Daughter in the North / Herb Manuel -- Coyote and the Two Sisters / Mandy Brown -- Why Newborn Animals Can Walk / Mandy Brown -- Grizzly and the Bear Cubs / Hilda Austin -- Grizzly and the Black Bear Cubs / Mary Williams -- The Four Bear Brothers / Anthony Joe -- Transformers / Louie Phillips -- Transformers / Herb Manuel -- Transformer Footprints / Louie Phillips -- How Chipmunk Got His Stripes / Mandy Brown -- Screech Owl / Mandy Brown -- Raven / Mandy Brown -- The Boy Who Was Abandoned / Mary Williams -- Sore Man / Mabel Joe -- Man and Owl / Mabel Joe -- Dog Travels to the Sun / Mabel Joe -- The Country Divided / Annie York --
• Grandfather and Grandson Work for Gold and Silver / Tom George -- The Lost Hunter / Mabel Joe -- Smuymn (Person with a Cane) / Peter Bob -- Why There Are Nlha7kapmx in Spokane / Mabel Joe -- Sexpinlhemx's Wife Foretells the Coming of the White Man / Annie York -- Simon Fraser / Annie York -- First Encounter with Missionaries / Annie York -- The Coming of the White Man / Mary Williams -- Sun Dance / Bill Walkem -- Nkw'i7tsutn (A Place to Dance) / Bill Walkem -- Archdeacon Small / Bill Walkem -- Xitl'ix (Nlha7kapmx Court) / Louie Phillips -- Old Ways / Nathan Spinks -- Powers of the Sexwna7m (Healer/Doctor) / Tom George and Bert Seymour -- On the Boston Bar Trail / Peter Bob -- Listening to Stories / Peter Bob -- On the Trapline / Phil Acar -- Our Tellings / Louie Phillips -- Making Baskets / Rosie Skuki -- Native Foods / Christine Bobb -- Trips to Petani / Mary Williams -- The Road to Petani Valley / Mary Williams -- Ways of the Old People / Mandy Brown --
• Memories of Lytton / Edna Malloway -- Passing on the Knowledge / Fred Hanna, Bea Hanna and Buddy Hanna -- Afterword / Cook's Ferry Band Council -- App. 1: Orthographic Key for the Nlha7kapmx Alphabet, Lytton Dialect -- App. 2: Key to Tapings, Translations, and Transcriptions -- Glossary of Nlha7kapmx Words.

ISBN

0774805250 :

LCCN

cn 95910169

OCLC

ocm32086708

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries