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Living by stories : a journey of landscape and memory / Harry Robinson ; compiled & edited by Wendy Wickwire.
- Title
- Living by stories : a journey of landscape and memory / Harry Robinson ; compiled & edited by Wendy Wickwire.
- Author
- Robinson, Harry, 1900-1990.
- Publication
- Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E99.O35 R6 2005 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wickwire, Wendy C.
- Description
- 288 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Living by Stories includes a number of classic stories set in the "mythological age" about the trickster/transformer, Coyote, and his efforts to rid the world of bad people - spatla or "monsters;" but this new volume is more important for its presentation of historical narratives set in the more recent past. As with the mythological accounts, there is much chaos and conflict in these stories, mainly due to the arrival of new quasi-monsters - shamas (whites) - who dispossess "Indians" of their lands and rights, impose new political and legal systems, and erect roads, rail lines, mines, farms, ranches and towns on the landscape."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Coyote (Mythological character)
- Coyote (Mythological character) > Legends
- Coyote (Personnage légendaire)
- Indian mythology > British Columbia
- Legends > British Columbia
- Légendes > Colombie-Britannique
- Mythologie indienne d'Amérique > Colombie-Britannique
- Okanagan (Indiens) > Folklore
- Okanagan Indians > Folklore
- Genre/Form
- Anthologie.
- Folklore
- Legends
- Quelle.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A spatla was killed by rabbit and chipmunk -- You going to get married to coyote's son -- Coyote makes a deal with the King of England -- They tell 'em all about what the white people hiding from the Indians -- That one you fellas killed, he come alive! -- You going to take our land away from us -- I'll show him who's a better man, him or me -- I kill him because he's trying to force me -- The white people make money out of him -- Wild horses, they kill 'em -- Picked up by a big bird -- They say that hired man must be the devil -- They confessed all about what the cat told him -- These cattle, they come out from the lake -- The cat told him, "you not going to last long!" -- The calf, they got no eyes -- The big fish swallow that horse -- That cat was trying to help him from going to hell -- Maybe that lake might be tunnel -- Why'nowadays the dog can chase the cat -- They find that man by his power -- When I first remember -- Stealing horses from the blackfoot.
- ISBN
- 0889225222 (pbk.) :
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library