The Salish People: Volume I. Charles Hill-Tout

      

       The Salish People

      The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout

       Volume I: The Thompson and the Okanagan Edited with an Introduction by Ralph Maud

      Vancouver • Talonbooks • 1978

      “Mr. Hill-Tout’s work, in fact, constitutes a very important local contribution to the ethnology of the native races of the west coast.”

      G.M. Dawson

       Director of the Canadian Geological Survey, in 1900.

      Contents of Volume I

       The Thompson and the Okanagan

       Introduction

       Sqaktkquaclt, or the Benign-faced, the Cannes of the Ntlakapamuq [Thompson], British Columbia (1899)

       Notes on the Ntlakapamuq [Thompson] of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America (1899)

       Ethnography (including place-names)

       Social Organisation

       Weapons of Warfare

       Feasts

       Marriage Customs

       Shamanism

       Names

      Mortuary Customs

       Birth Customs

       Tattooing and Painting

       Games

       Clothing

       Sweat-house

       Food

       Salmon Oil and Butter

       Utensils

       Hospitality

       Customs

       Canoes

       Archaeological

       Physical Characteristics

       Linguistics

       Folklore

       Story of the Elk-maiden

       Tlapas Cimams, or the Forgotten Wife Story

      Story of the Adventures of Snikiap the Coyote, and his Son, Ntlikcumtum

       Matq, or the Fire Myth

       Painted Blanket Myth

       Koakoela, or Husband-root Myth

       Oitcut Story (She Burns Herself)

       Snuya Cpitakoetl, or Beaver Story

       Story of Snikiap [Coyote], Qainon [Magpie], Tzalas [Diver], and Spate [Black Bear]

       Story of Hanni’s Wife and the Revenge of her Son

       General Remarks

       Marriage Customs of the Yale Tribe

       Report on the Ethnology of the Okanaken [Okanagan] of British Columbia, an Interior Division of the

       Salish Stock (1911)

       Place-names

       Mythology

       (The Snow Dance of Coyote)

       Myths

       Myth of Sinkelep the Coyote

       The Making of the Sun

       Stealing the Fire from the Upper World

       How Coyote Brought the Salmon up the Columbia

       Myth of Skunk (Cnikstia) and Fisher (Tcirtops)

       Coyote, his Four Sons, and the Grizzly Bear

       Coyote and Fox

       The Lazy Boy

       The Grandchildren of the Mountain Sheep

       Fisher and Martin

       List of Works Cited in Volume 1

      Illustrations

      Map of the Salish and their Neighbours

       Cartography by the Audio-Visual Centre of

       Simon Fraser University.

      Hill-Tout’s