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Author:   Anthony Mattina ,  Madeline DeSautel ,  Peter J. Seymour
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.597kg
ISBN:  

9780803277052

ISBN 10:   0803277059
Pages:   816
Publication Date:   01 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

  Acknowledgments Preface Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction The Colville-Okanagan land and its people The languages Colville-Okanagan social organization Colville-Okanagan knowledge The Texts Autobiographical and ethnographic texts Autobiography Harvesting Racing horses A hunting trip Marriage customs After the birth of a child Partnership butchering The attainment of provisions The rainy hunting trip Tales of European origin Black Pig The grateful dead version 1 The grateful dead version 2 The Devil and the black man captikʷɬ How Coyote got his powers Coyote and Whale Coyote and Grizzly The two goats Lynx and the virgin BlueJay and Wolf The transcription and analysis of the texts Approximate phonemic transcriptions Phrasal words and amalgams Alternate forms Inflectional and non-inflectional material Derivational affixes Inflectional affixes Person Marking The suffix -y̓ List in tabular form of remaining inflectional affixes Word classes Nominal and pronominal arguments Autobiographical and ethnographic texts Autobiography Harvesting Racing horses A hunting trip Marriage customs After the birth of a child Partnership butchering The attainment of provisions The rainy hunting trip Tales of European origin Black Pig The grateful dead version 1 (unfinished The grateful dead version 2 The Devil and the Black Face captikʷɬ How Coyote got his powers Coyote and Whale Coyote and Grizzly The two goats Lynx and the virgin Blue Jay and Wolf Index of stems and inflectional affixes Index of roots Lexical affixes Index and chronology of Pete Seymour’s narrations References.

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For nearly half a century Tony Mattina has been one of those extremely rare scholars to stick with the narrative legacy of a single mysterious, master storyteller, whose genius and wisdom he serves up in this career-culminating book. Working in close auspices with the Colville-Okanagan communities of Washington State and British Columbia, Mattina [has] ... produced this stunning and original anthology of their collective imagination, as filtered through the old, old stories of the now-deceased sage, Peter Seymour. [It is] one of those quiet triumphs that took one humanistic spirit from academia to unearth, translate, and contextualize the genius of another humanistic spirit from another cultural world. -Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places -- Peter Nabokov This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics. -SSILA Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

For nearly half a century Tony Mattina has been one of those extremely rare scholars to stick with the narrative legacy of a single mysterious, master storyteller, whose genius and wisdom he serves up in this career-culminating book. Working in close auspices with the Colville-Okanagan communities of Washington State and British Columbia, Mattina [has] . . . produced this stunning and original anthology of their collective imagination, as filtered through the old, old stories of the now-deceased sage, Peter Seymour. [It is] one of those quiet triumphs that took one humanistic spirit from academia to unearth, translate, and contextualize the genius of another humanistic spirit from another cultural world. Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places --Peter Nabokov (11/24/2014)

Author Information

Peter J. Seymour was a farmer, family man, hunter, jockey, and storyteller. Anthony Mattina is a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the University of Montana–Missoula. He is the author of Colville-Okanagan Dictionary and the editor and co-translator (with Madeline DeSautel) of The Golden Woman: The Colville Narrative of Peter J. Seymour. Madeline DeSautel (1888–1979) was a native speaker of Colville-Okanagan. She and Anthony Mattina have co-translated two publications.

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