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***BEL-001***
BC001 THE SNENE'IQ BC00100010
A MAN AND HIS WIFE WERE IN THEIR HOUSE. THEIR CHILD WAS BC00100020
CRYING. THEN A SNENE'IQ CAME AND WANTED TO SHOOT THE CHILD. THEN BC00100030
THE MAN (WHOSE NAME WAS IA'LIT) SHOT THE SNENE'IQ AND KILLED HIM. BC00100040
HE DUG A HOLE IN THE GROUND AND BURIED HIM. WHEN THE YOUNG BC00100050
SNENE'IQ DID NOT RETURN HIS FATHER WENT DOWN THE RIVER AND CRIED. BC00100060
HE SAT DOWN AND CRIED. THE PEOPLE WHO WENT UP THE RIVER SAW HIM. BC00100070
THEY BECAME AFRAID AND RETURNED HOME. THEN IA'LIT WENT UP THE BC00100080
RIVER AND SAT DOWN WITH THE SNENE'IQ AND BEWAILED WITH HIM HIS LOST BC00100090
CHILD. WHEN THEY STOPPED THE SNENE'IQ SAID TO IA'LIT: "MY DEAR, BC00100100
I DESIRED TO CRY WITH YOU. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE MY CHILD IS. IT BC00100110
MAY BE IT IS DEAD. I WILL GIVE YOU MY CHILD'S COPPER AND YOU SHALL BC00100120
BE A CHIEF IN . . .
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***COM-001***
CO001 THE LEGEND OF KUMSNOOTL. CO00100010
KUMSNOOTL (OUR ELDER BROTHER) DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN AND CO00100020
WANDERED ALL OVER THE EARTH, ACCOMPANIED BY PA (THE RAVEN), KAIQ, CO00100030
(THE MINK), AND TSECELETL, (A SMALL BIRD). ONCE UPON A TIME THEY CO00100040
MET A MAN CALLED KOALAWAISIT. HE KNEW THAT KUMSNOOTL WOULD COME TO CO00100050
HIS HOUSE AND WANTED TO KILL HIM. FOR THAT PURPOSE HE MADE A LARGE CO00100060
PILE OF WOOD IN HIS HOUSE AND INVITED KUMSNOOTL AND PA FOR DINNER. CO00100070
WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED THE HOUSE HE LIGHTED THE FIRE AND THREW BOTH CO00100080
HIS GUESTS INTO THE ROARING FLAMES. KUMSNOOTL, HOWEVER, SLIPPED CO00100090
INTO A LOG AND PREVENTED ITS CATCHING FIRE, ALTHOUGH THE WOOD WAS CO00100100
ABLAZE ALL AROUND IT; THE RAVEN MADE HIS ESCAPE THROUGH THE SMOKE CO00100110
HOLE. AFTER THE FIRE HAD BURNT DOWN, KUMSNOOTL LEFT THE LOG IN CO00100120
WHICH HE HAD B . . .
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The Journal of American Folk-lore Vol.XXV.-October-December 1912 - no. XCVIII. Traditions of the Lillooet Indians of British Columbia. by James Teit CONTENTS I. Traditions of the "real Lillooet" (the Liluet-o'l) 1. A'tse'mel; or, the story of the transformers 2. The boy and the sun 3. The frog sisters 4. Beaver and eagle 5. The fire people;or, the man who introduced fire 6. Origin of light and fire 7. The salmon men; or, the origin of salmon 8. Coyote 9. The man who had a branch for a wife 10. Glacier and chinook-wind 11. Wren; or, the chain of arrows 12. The mosquitoes and thunder 13. Wren 14. Owl 15. The girl and the dog 16. Raven 17. Bald-headed eagle 18. The slave who married bald-head's daughter 19. The grizzly-bears and the black-bears 20. The male grizzly-bear 21. Fawn 22. The lad who killed his cousin 23. Nkimtcamu'l 24. The man who got four wives 25. The ghost-mother 26. Story of the sisters 27. The medicine-man and his sweetheart 28. Tcimtcimi'kin 29. The loon and the wo . . .
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***OKA-001***
THE SPIRIT CHIEF NAMES THE ANIMAL PEOPLE OK05100010
HAH-AH' EEL-ME'WHEM, THE GREAT SPIRIT CHIEF, CALLED THE ANIMAL OK05100020
PEOPLE TOGETHER. THEY CAME FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. THEN THE OK05100030
SPIRIT CHIEF TOLD THEM THERE WAS TO BE A CHANGE, THAT A NEW KIND OF OK05100040
PEOPLE WAS COMING TO LIVE ON THE EARTH. OK05100050
"ALL OF YOU CHIP-CHAP-TIQULK -- ANIMAL PEOPLE -- MUST HAVE OK05100060
NAMES," THE SPIRIT CHIEF SAID. "SOME OF YOU HAVE NAMES NOW, SOME OK05100070
OF YOU HAVEN'T. BUT TOMORROW ALL WILL HAVE NAMES THAT SHALL OK05100080
BE KEPT BY YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS FOREVER. IN THE MORNING, AS OK05100090
THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAY SHOWS IN THE SKY, COME TO MY LODGE AND CHOOSE OK05100100
YOUR NAMES. THE FIRST TO COME MAY CHOOSE ANY NAME THAT HE OR SHE OK05100110
WANTS. THE NEXT PERSON MAY TAKE ANY OTHER NAME. THAT IS THE WAY OK05100120
IT WILL GO UNT . . .
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***SHU-001***
SH001 SH00100010
IN THE REMOTEST ANTIQUITY, THE COUNTRY WAS PEOPLED BY INDIANS, SH00100020
BUT THEY WERE POOR, BECAUSE THE SALMON COULD NOT ASCEND THE FRASER SH00100030
ON ACCOUNT OF A DAM, WHICH TWO OLD HAGS OR WITCHES HAD MADE WHERE SH00100040
HELL-GATE CANON NOW IS. SKIL-AP' TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT HE WOULD GO SH00100050
DOWN THE RIVER AND BREAK THE DAM, SO THAT THE SALMON MIGHT COME UP. SH00100060
HE INSTRUCTED THEM TO WATCH FOR A GREAT SMOKE WHICH HE WOULD MAKE SH00100070
TO SHOW THEM WHEN HE HAD SET OUT ON HIS RETURN. HE THEN SH00100080
TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A SMOOTH FLAT PIECE OF WOOD, WELL SHAPED, SH00100090
AND FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER TILL HE LODGED AGAINST THE DAM AT SH00100100
HELL-GATE CANON. SOON THE WOMEN CAME TO THE DAM TO GET SALMON, SH00100110
AND SEEING THE PIECE OF WOOD SAID, "WE WILL MAKE A PLATE OF THIS." SH00100120
THEY TOOK THE . . .
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***SQU-001***
SQ001 QA'LQALI SQ00100010
IN THE OLD DAYS THEY USED TO WARN THE CHILDREN TO BE CAREFUL SQ00100020
NOT TO ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANYONE THEY DIDN'T KNOW. THE CHILDREN SQ00100030
WERE AT HOME, AND THEY WERE CRYING. A BIG WOMAN CAME IN, CARRYING SQ00100040
A LARGE BASKET ON HER BACK. THE CHILDREN DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS SQ00100050
QALQALI. THEN QALQALI SAID: "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, SQ00100060
CHILDREN?" QALQALI HAD SOME CEDAR-BARK WITH HER. THEN SHE FOOLED SQ00100070
THE CHILDREN. QALQALI SAID: "THERE YOU ARE, KIDDIES, TAKE THIS SQ00100080
DRIED SLAMON]" THEN SHE HELD IT OUT TO THEM, AND THE CHILDREN SQ00100090
REACHED FOR IT. THEN QALQALI CAUGHT THEM BY THE HANDS, AND SHE SQ00100100
THREW THE CHILDREN IN THE BASKET, T'IT'KI?CTN AMONG THEM. NOW THIS SQ00100110
T'IT'KI?CTN WAS AN EXCELLENT CARVER. THEN QALQALI WENT UP (THE SQ00100120
MOUNTAIN), CAR . . .
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TRADITIONS OF THE THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. COLLECTED BY JAMES TEIT. ***THO-001*** THE MYTHOLOGICAL AGE. *NKAMTCINEMUX AND CAWAXAMUX.* AT ONE TIME, VERY LONG AGO, THE EARTH WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT IS AT PRESENT. THERE WERE NO TREES, AND MANY KINDS OF BUSHES AND PLANTS WERE WANTING; NEITHER WAS THERE ANY SALMON OR OTHER FISH, NOR ANY BERRIES. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED DURING THIS AGE WERE CALLED SPETAKL. THEY WERE MOSTLY ANIMALS, WHO, NEVERTHELESS, HAD HUMAN FORM. THEY WERE GIFTED IN MAGIC; AND THEIR CHILDREN USED TO REACH MATURITY IN A FEW MONTHS. THERE WERE AMONG THEM MANY CANNIBALS, AND MANY MYSTERIOUS PERSONS. AFTER A TIME CERTAIN MEN SUCCESSIVELY APPEARED ON THE EARTH, TRAVELLING HERE AND THERE, WORKING WONDERS, CHANGING AND MODIFYING THE EXISTING ORDER OF THINGS. GRADUALLY MANY OF THE SPETAKL WHO WERE BAD WERE SHORN OF THEIR POWERS, DRIVEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY, OR WERE TRANSFORMED INTO BIRDS, FISHES, ANIMALS, AND TREES. THE GREATEST OF THESE TRANSFORMERS W . . .
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***TSI-001***
TS001 THE FLYING CHAIN TS00100010
ALONG THE COAST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE LAND AND THE SEA DO TS00100020
NOT MEET IN A STRAIGHT AND CLEAN-DRAWN LINE, THEY RUN TOGETHER IN A TS00100030
TANGLE OF BAYS AND INLETS, POINTS AND ISLANDS. THERE ARE HUNDREDS TS00100040
OF ISLANDS, THOUSANDS OF THEM, MORE ISLANDS THAN ONE COULD BELIEVE TS00100050
POSSIBLE, AND THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED. TS00100060
MANY YEARS AGO, WHEN THE WORLD WAS STILL TENDER AND GREEN, AN TS00100070
INDIAN VILLAGE STOOD NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE NASS RIVER. TO THE WEST TS00100080
LAY THE GREAT OCEAN, SPARKLING IN THE LAZY SUNLIGHT. FROM THE EAST TS001?0090
CAME THE RIVER, FLOWING OUT OF THE GREAT SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS, TS00100100
DOWN THROUGH A ROCKY CANYON WHERE THE EAGLES NESTED. TS00100110
THE PEOPLE WERE HAPPY THERE. THE SEA AND THE RIVER, THE TS00100120
TIDE-FLATS AND . . .
