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Lushootseed Texts An
Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics
T. C. S. Langen, Edward (Hagen)
Sam, Martha Lamont, Emma Conrad, Thomas Hess,
Vi Hilbert, Crisca Bierwert, Crisca Bierwert,
Cloth: 1996,xii,325,CIP.LC 95-37060,0-8032-1262-3
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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This volume introduces the oral literature
of Native American peoples in Puget Salish-speaking
areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed
elders are transcribed and translated into English,
accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural
background. Upper Skagit elder and cotranslator Vi Hilbert,
a 1994 recipient of the NEH National Heritage Fellowship
in Folk Arts, includes a cultural welcome and offers
childhood reminiscences of the storytellers. Cotranslator
Thomas M. Hess, associate professor of linguistics at
the University of Victoria, parses the beginning lines
of a text to show the grammatical structures; he also
includes his recollections of working with the storytellers
in the 1960s as a graduate student. Editor and cotranslator
Crisca Bierwert, assistant professor of anthropology
at the University of Michigan, provides information
on the processes of language translation and of rendering
oral traditions into written form. Annotator T. C. S.
Langen, who holds a Ph.D. in English literature and
is a curriculum developer for the Tulalip tribe, provides
analyses of Lushootseed poetics. The book includes information
about purchasing audiotapes of the stories.
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