Haboo
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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.
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Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi taqʷ?əblu 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 tsisqʷux̌ʷal La Pointe is director of Lushootseed Research and granddaughter of Vi taqʷ?əblu Hilbert.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Note on Orthography
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Journey to the Sky and Back Down to the Earth
- Loon with Deer Was Hunting Ducks with Bow and Arrow
- The Basket Ogresses Chase Coyote
- Wolf Brothers Kill Elk and Beaver
- Boil and Hammer Are Living There
- Basket Ogress
- Legend of the Seasons (All Year Round Story)
- Fly
- Basket Ogress
- Coyote
- Mink and the Changer
- Pheasant, Raven, and the Hunters
- Coyote's Son Had Two Wives
- The Seal-Hunting Brothers
- Coyote Marries His Own Daughter
- Eyes of Coyote
- Basket Ogress
- Legend of the Seasons
- The Legend of the Humpy Salmon
- The Work of the Winds
- The Legend of the Three Sisters
- Steelhead
- Yellowhammer and His Wives
- Sockeye Salmon in Baker River
- Moose
- Basket Ogress
- Coyote Dances with the Sea Shells
- Grizzly Bear and Rabbit
- Skunk
- Four Short Stories
- Coyote Was Creating Rivers
- Skunk's Important Information
- Crane Saved Coyote's Life
- The Ticklish Bear
- Appendix 1: Boil and Hammer
- Appendix 2: Data on the Texts
- Selected Readings
- Folklore Sources
- Historical Sources
- Ethnographic Sources
- Linguistic Sources
