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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456309303321

Titolo

Our tellings [[electronic resource] ] : Interior Salish stories of the Nlhaʼkapmx people / / compiled and edited by Darwin Hanna and Mamie Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 1995

ISBN

1-283-13174-9

9786613131744

0-7748-5407-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HannaDarwin <1969->

HenryMamie <1922->

Disciplina

398.2/089/97907117

Soggetti

Ntlakyapamuk Indians

Ntlakyapamuk mythology

Tales - British Columbia

Creation - Mythology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217).

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; SPTÁKWELH (CREATION STORIES); SPÍLAXEM (NON-CREATION STORIES); Tellers and Translators; Appendices; Glossary of Nlha7kápmx Words; Bibliography; Ntl'ík'semtm (Coyote's Son); Coyote and His Son; The Trip to the Moon; Coyote and the Three Sisters; Coyote and Wolf; Coyote and Buffalo; Coyote and Wood Tick; Coyote Visits His Daughter in the North; Coyote and the Two Sisters; Why Newborn Animals Can Walk; Grizzly and the Bear Cubs; Grizzly and the Black Bear Cubs; The Four Bear Brothers; Transformers; Transformers; Transformer Footprints

How Chipmunk Got His StripesScreech Owl; Raven; The Boy Who Was Abandoned; Sore Man; Man and Owl; Dog Travels to the Sun; The Country Divided; Grandfather and Grandson Work for Gold and Silver; The Lost Hunter; Smuýmn (Person with a Cane); Why There Are Nlha7kápmx in Spokane; Sexpínlhemx's Wife Foretells the Coming of the White Man; Simon Fraser; First Encounter with Missionaries; The



Coming of the White Man; Sun Dance; Nkw'i7tsútn (A Place to Dance); Archdeacon Small; Xítl'ix (Nlha7kápmx Court); Old Ways; Powers of the Sexwná7m (Healer/Doctor); On the Boston Bar Trail; Listening to Stories

On the TraplineOur Tellings; Making Baskets; Native Foods; Trips to Petáni; The Road to Petáni Valley; Ways of the Old People; Memories of Lytton; Passing on the Knowledge; Afterword; 1: Orthographic Key for the Nlha7kápmx Alphabet, Lytton Dialect; 2: Key to Tapings, Translations, and Transcriptions; H; I; K; L; M; N; P; S; T; W; X; Y; Z