
Haboo
Native American Stories from Puget Sound
University of Washington Press
2nd Edition
Published on 27. April 2020
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-295-74697-5 (ISBN)
Description
The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound represent an important part of the oral tradition by which one generation hands down beliefs, values, and customs to another. Vi Hilbert grew up when many of the old social patterns survived and everyone spoke the ancestral language.
Haboo, Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect foibles of human nature, convey serious moral instruction, and comically detail the unfortunate, even disastrous consequences of breaking taboos.
Beautifully redesigned and with a new foreword by Jill La Pointe, Haboo offers a vivid and invaluable resource for linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, future generations of Lushootseed-speaking people, and others interested in Native languages and cultures.
Haboo, Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Animals, plants, trees, and even rocks had human attributes. Prominent characters like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer and tricksters like Mink, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous, earthy stories that reflect foibles of human nature, convey serious moral instruction, and comically detail the unfortunate, even disastrous consequences of breaking taboos.
Beautifully redesigned and with a new foreword by Jill La Pointe, Haboo offers a vivid and invaluable resource for linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, future generations of Lushootseed-speaking people, and others interested in Native languages and cultures.
Reviews / Votes
"Engaging, entertaining, and informative. . . Recommended."(Choice) "A second edition of this landmark book was warranted to reflect current orthographic and linguistic trends. An appropriate resource for scholars of linguistics, folklore, and indigenous studies."
(Choice) "Hilbert writes interestingly and informatively about the storytellers and the culture that produced the tales. . . . This carefully edited collection makes a significant contribution."
(Journal of the West)
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Series
Edition
second edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
20 b&w illus., 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-74697-5 (9780295746975)
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Persons
Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi taq?s?blu Hilbert (1918-2008) received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994, taught language classes at the University of Washington, and cowrote the Lushootseed Dictionary. Thom Hess (1936-2009) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria. Jill tsisq?ux??al La Pointe is director of Lushootseed Research and granddaughter of Vi taq?s?blu Hilbert.