Foreword / Tulalip Tribes Lushootseed Department
Introduction
Language / Texts / Transcription and analysis / Transcription practices / Presentation / Acknowledgments /
1 seswixab Martha Williams Lamont
Pheasant and Raven / The Brothers of Pheasant's Wife / Changer / Owl Lives There / Little Diver Is the Wife of Heron / Crow Is Sick (First Telling) / Crow Is Sick (Second Telling) / Basket Ogress / Mink and Tutyika (First Telling) / Mink and Tutyika (Second Telling) / Coyote and His Daughter / Coyote's Son Had Two Wives
2 Elizabeth Charles (Charley) Krise
Lady Louse / First Version / Second Version
3 s?adacut Edward “Hagan” Sam
Black Bear and Ant / Black Bear and Fish Hawk / Coyote and the Big Rock / Mink and Tutyika
4 lalacut Agnes Jules James
Basket Ogress
Glossary; References
An invaluable record of eighteen Lushootseed stories with interlinear grammatical analyses.
David Beck is a professor of linguistics at the University of Alberta. Thom Hess was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria.
As excellent examples of a specifically linguistic form of textual
presentation, these volumes definitely achieve what they have set
out to do. As such, they are not books that one would pick up
simply to read the stories. Nevertheless, it is possible to discern
that the stories are rich in teachings, [and] that they are
beautifully told …
*BC Studies*
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