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Peter J. Seymour was a Salish storyteller. He carried forward earlier tales of elders along with his own experiences as fewer and fewer native speakers were sharing the Colville-Okanagan language and oral literature. To thwart the demise of this language, over the course of a decade he passed along Salish stories not only to his family but also to linguist Anthony Mattina.
The Complete Seymour: Colville Storyteller includes Seymour's tales collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before his death. It documents Seymour's rich storytelling and includes detailed morphological analyses and translations of this endangered language. This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Symbols and Abbreviations
Introduction
The Colville-Okanagan land and its people
The languages
Colville-Okanagan social organization
Colville-Okanagan knowledge
The Texts
Autobiographical and ethnographic texts
Autobiography
Harvesting
Racing horses
A hunting trip
Marriage customs
After the birth of a child
Partnership butchering
The attainment of provisions
The rainy hunting trip
Tales of European origin
Black Pig
The grateful dead version 1
The grateful dead version 2
The Devil and the black man
captikʷɬ
How Coyote got his powers
Coyote and Whale
Coyote and Grizzly
The two goats
Lynx and the virgin
BlueJay and Wolf
The transcription and analysis of the texts
Approximate phonemic transcriptions
Phrasal words and amalgams
Alternate forms
Inflectional and non-inflectional material
Derivational affixes
Inflectional affixes
Person Marking
The suffix -y̓
List in tabular form of remaining inflectional affixes
Word classes
Nominal and pronominal arguments
Autobiographical and ethnographic texts
Autobiography
Harvesting
Racing horses
A hunting trip
Marriage customs
After the birth of a child
Partnership butchering
The attainment of provisions
The rainy hunting trip
Tales of European origin
Black Pig
The grateful dead version 1 (unfinished
The grateful dead version 2
The Devil and the Black Face
captikʷɬ
How Coyote got his powers
Coyote and Whale
Coyote and Grizzly
The two goats
Lynx and the virgin
Blue Jay and Wolf
Index of stems and inflectional affixes
Index of roots
Lexical affixes
Index and chronology of Pete Seymour's narrations
References.
