Bella Coola Man
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"The first book of Clayton Mack's stories, Grizzlies & White Guys, became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1993. Now Mack is back, with more true tales, of sniniks and sasquatches, bears, priests, medicine women, Crooked Jaw the Indian agent and dead men's talking beans.
Here are the last stories he told, and as many details about the traditional life and legends of the Nuxalk as he could remember during his last years. In this collection Mack remembers the first white settlers at Bella Coola and Kimsquit, the first Anahim Lake rodeo, the year the ocean froze. Mack was there when Thor Heyerdahl came through, looking for fresh bear meat and proposing that the Bella Coolas' ancestors came by the sea from Hawaii.
Mack also remembers how the old people knew by a clam's whiskers whether it was safe to eat and how to hunt a mountain goat without a gun. He tells his people's version of Alexander Mackenzie's trip down the Grease Trail.
Clayton Mack's sharp intelligence, crystal-clear memory and enduring sense of humour have made his stories invaluable, as both unique historical record and as pure entertainment."
Here are the last stories he told, and as many details about the traditional life and legends of the Nuxalk as he could remember during his last years. In this collection Mack remembers the first white settlers at Bella Coola and Kimsquit, the first Anahim Lake rodeo, the year the ocean froze. Mack was there when Thor Heyerdahl came through, looking for fresh bear meat and proposing that the Bella Coolas' ancestors came by the sea from Hawaii.
Mack also remembers how the old people knew by a clam's whiskers whether it was safe to eat and how to hunt a mountain goat without a gun. He tells his people's version of Alexander Mackenzie's trip down the Grease Trail.
Clayton Mack's sharp intelligence, crystal-clear memory and enduring sense of humour have made his stories invaluable, as both unique historical record and as pure entertainment."
LIB.00393
Harbour Publishing
1994
1-55017-104-6
Print and published material
Biographies
English
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