LibGuides UFV: Indigenous Literatures: Creation & Teaching Stories

Coast Salish

Kwulasulwut : stories from the Coast Salish by Ellen White
Call Number: PZ 8.1 W55 K98 1992
When the rains came and other legends of the Salish People by Dolby Bevan Turner
Call Number: E 99 S21 T86 1992
People of the Land by Johnny Abraham
Call Number: E 78 B9 P467 2009
Anthology of the Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations stories and legends

Kôhkominawak otâcimowiniwâwa = Our grandmothers' lives, as told in their own words by Glecia Bear
Call Number: E 99 C88 K65 1992
Voice of the Plains Cree by Edward Ahenakew; Ruth Buck (Editor) Chief Thunderchild's stories of a fierce and vanished freedom are reprinted here as he told them to Edward Ahenakew in 1923.
Call Number: E 99 C88 A34 1995
The Counselling Speeches of Jim Ka-Nipitehtew by Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw (As told by); Freda Ahenakew (Editor); H. C. Wolfart (Editor) Jim Ka-Nipitehtew was a respected Cree Elder from Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, who spoke only Cree and provided these original counselling discourses. The book offers the speeches in Cree syllabics and in Roman Orthography as well as an English translation and commentary. The Elder offers guidance for First Nations people in these eight speeches that cover the proper performance of ceremonies, words of encouragement for youth, information about collecting medicinal plants, directions for proper behaviour of men toward women, proper preparations for the Pipe ceremony, the role of the Pipestem in the Making of Treaty 6, the importance of tobacco, and examples of improper ritual behaviour in ceremonies. [From Publisher]
Call Number: E-book