The Squamish and the Lillooet

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Volume II of The Salish People deals with the people of the Squamish and the Lillooet. It includes an account of the Origin Myth as told by a 100 year old blind storyteller whose mother saw Captain Cook sail into Howe Sound in 1792. One cannot stress enough how uniquely informative the "asides" are that Hill-Tout gives us throughout the text. In one, where fine snow is being described, he says: "In this point of the recital the old man was exceedingly interesting and graphic in his description, the very tones of his voice lending themselves to his story, and I gathered, long before the interpreter took up the story, that he had told of something that was very small and had penetrated everywhere." And again, where the Squamish dead are described: "Here the old man's voice was hushed to a plaintive wail, and the faces of his audience were an eloquent index of the tragic interest of his story of their ancestors' misfortunes."

Author Charles Hill-Tout

Additional Contributors and Acknowledgements Ralph Maud (Editor)

IdentifierLIB.00062

PublisherVancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks

Date1978

ISBN0889221499

Series TitleThe Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout

Volume and Sequential DesignationVolume 2

General Material DesignationPrint and published material

LanguageEnglish

Location / Box-Folder Media Room and Library

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