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• Title:Two houses half-buried in sand : oral traditions of the Hul'q'umi'num' Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island / Beryl Mildred Cryer ; compiled and edited by Chris Arnett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cryer, Beryl Mildred, 1887-1980.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Arnett, Chris.
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: BJ C79 T86 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Coast Salish--Vancouver Island--History
  Coast Salish--Storytelling
  Coast Salish--Elders
  Indigenous Peoples--Oral tradition--British Columbia
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hul'qumi'num Indians--History.
  Coast Salish mythology--British Columbia.
  
• Genre/Form:Interviews
  Biographies
  Legends
  
• Description:351 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351).
  
• ISBN:9780889225558 (Paper)
  0889225559 (Paper)
  
• Contents: Xulqalustun: a friend of Governor Douglas, Part I / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun, Part II / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun, Part III / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun, Part IV / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun, Part V / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun, Part VI / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Siamtunaat's recipe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Siamtunaat's potlatch / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Wedding of Ellen and Jimmy Joe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Medicine men - Indian doctors / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Healing of Louie Chuhaasteenxun / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  End of Tsilamunthut / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Ceremony of the singing name / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Gold at Cowichan / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Ye Olde and Merrie Game of X'atl'tul / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Cowichan-Bella-Bella feuds / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Fish charmer / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Woman who was made wrong / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Legends attached to names of Cowichan villages / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer
  Island of Xulel-thw / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Siamtunaat's story / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Indian games / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer
  Last big fight of the Cowichans / Ts'umsitun and Beryl Cryer
  Baby that brought peace and friendship / Ts'umsitun and Beryl Cryer
  Haida slave / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer
  Good priest, Father Rondeault / Quon-As and Beryl Cryer
  Xwult' up - the flying spirit-men / Ts'umsitun, Latits'iiya and Beryl Cryer
  Loxa, Chief of the Cowichans / Stockl-Whut and Beryl Cryer
  Death of Sch-Lunas / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer
  Qwulsteynum's reminiscences / Qwulsteynum and Beryl Cryer
  Xeel's - the Sun God / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Burial of Tsa'athmun / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Iichnawmukw's story / Iichnawmukw' and Beryl Cryer
  Ki'et'sa'kun of Nanaimo / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Origin of the Snuneymuxw / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Sch-Weys, the shaman / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Origin of the Solexwel totem / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Last fight of the Tl'eeltxw / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Sti'ilup legend / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Indian battle at Alberni / Joe Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Chief Qapuluq's Stl'un'uq / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Sugnuston's ancestors / Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Quil-Kay-Milth, the carver / Wilkes James and Beryl Cryer
  Tl'utasiye's childhood games / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Origin of the Qhwimux tribe / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Visit of the first ship to Sti'ilup / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Magic hole on Mount Tzouhalem / Qwulsteynum and Beryl Cryer
  "Moons" of the Cowichans / Mary Rice, Tommy Pielle, Stockl-Whut, Edward Hulbertsun, Kli-Um, Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse, Wilkes James, John Peter and Beryl Cryer
  Xulqalustun's Fun'ral / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Sugnuston tried to make peace with the Haidas / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Q'ise'q and the Munmaanta'qw / Johnny Seletze, Rosalie Seletze and Beryl Cryer
  Tales of Sheshuq'um / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Memories of Ts'uwxilem / Rosalie Seletze and Beryl Cryer
  Smilhu / Beryl Cryer
  Punishment of Spaal' / Beryl Cryer
  First of the Shtsuw'athun / Joe Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Legends of the Swayxwi / Tsonaatun and Beryl Cryer
  Buried treasure / Joe Wyse, Jennie Wyse and Beryl Cryer
  Origin of the thunderbird / Latits'iiya and Beryl Cryer
  Little island of Kuper / Mary Rice and Beryl Cryer
  Whatever happened to greedy Raven / Tommy Pielle and Beryl Cryer.