Research Catalog

Title

Two houses half-buried in sand : oral traditions of the Hul'q'umi'num' Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island / Beryl Mildred Cryer ; compiled and edited by Chris Arnett.

Author

Cryer, Beryl Mildred, 1887-1980.

Publication

Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Arnett, Chris

Description

351 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the inland coast of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria's oldest newspaper, The Daily Colonist, the seventy stories included here are the result of a unique collaboration between a middle-aged reporter, Beryl Cryer, of upper-class British ancestry, and well-known Hul'qumi'num'-speaking cultural authorities eager to have their stories told and published.

Subject

• Hul'qumi'num Indians > History
• Hul'qumi'num Indians > Biography
• Elders (Native peoples) > British Columbia > Interviews
• Oral tradition > British Columbia
• Coast Salish mythology > British Columbia
• Hul'qumi'num (Indiens) > Histoire
• Hul'qumi'num (Indiens) > Biographies
• Autochtones > Anciens > Colombie-Britannique > Entretiens
• Tradition orale > Colombie-Britannique
• Mythologie salish de la côte > Colombie-Britannique

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. 347-351.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Xulqalustun: A Friend of Governor Douglas, Part I / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun, Part II / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun, Part III / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun, Part IV / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun, Part V / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun, Part VI / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Siamtunaat's Recipe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Siamtunaat's Potlatch / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Wedding of Ellen and Jimmy Joe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Medicine Men -- Indian Doctors / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Healing of Louie Chuhaasteenxun / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The End of Tsilamunthut / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Ceremony of the Singing Name / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Gold at Cowichan / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Ye Olde and Merrie Game of X'atl'tul / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Cowichan-Bella-Bella Feuds / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Fish Charmer / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Woman Who Was Made Wrong / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Legends Attached to Names of Cowichan Villages / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer -- The Island of Xulel-thw / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Siamtunaat's Story / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Indian Games / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer -- The Last Big Fight of the Cowichans / Ts'umsitun and Beryl Cryer -- Baby That Brought Peace and Friendship / Ts'umsitun and Beryl Cryer -- The Haida Slave / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer -- The Good Priest, Father Rondeault / Quon-As and Beryl Cryer -- Xwult' up -- The Flying Spirit-Men / Ts'umsitun, Latits'iiya and Beryl Cryer -- Loxa, Chief of the Cowichans / Stockl-Whut and Beryl Cryer -- The Death of Sch-Lunas / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer -- Qwulsteynum's Reminiscences / Qwulsteynum and Beryl Cryer -- Xeel's -- The Sun God / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- The Burial of Tsa'athmun / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Iichnawmukw's Story / Iichnawmukw' and Beryl Cryer -- Ki'et'sa'kun of Nanaimo / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Origin of the Snuneymuxw / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Sch-Weys, the Shaman / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Origin of the Solexwel Totem / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Last Fight of the Tl'eeltxw / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- A Sti'ilup Legend / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- An Indian Battle at Alberni / Joe Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Chief Qapuluq's Stl'un'uq / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Sugnuston's Ancestors / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Quil-Kay-Milth, the Carver / Wilkes James and Beryl Cryer -- Tl'utasiye's Childhood Games / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Origin of the Qhwimux Tribe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Visit of the First Ship to Sti'ilup / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- The Magic Hole on Mount Tzouhalem / Qwulsteynum and Beryl Cryer -- The "Moons" of the Cowichans / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle, Stockl-Whut, Edward Hulbertsun, Kli-Um, Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse, Wilkes James, John Peter and Beryl Cryer -- Xulqalustun's Fun'ral / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Sugnuston Tried to Make Peace with the Haidas / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Q'ise'q and the Munmaanta'qw / Johnny Seletze, Rosalie Seletze and Beryl Cryer -- Tales of Sheshuq'um / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Memories of Ts'uwxilem / Rosalie Seletze and Beryl Cryer -- The Smilhu / Beryl Cryer -- The Punishment of Spaal' / Beryl Cryer -- The First of the Shtsuw'athun / Joe Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Legends of the Swayxwi / Tsonaatun and Beryl Cryer -- Buried Treasure / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer -- Origin of the Thunderbird / Latits'iiya and Beryl Cryer -- Little Island of Kuper / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer -- Whatever Happened to Greedy Raven / Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer.

ISBN

• 9780889225558
• 0889225559

OCLC

• 154690267
• SCSB-12419899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library