Write It on Your Heart
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Harry Robinson
As a member of the Lower Similkameen Band of the Interior Salish people and a rancher for most of his life, Robinson also looked upon himself as one of the last storytellers of his people. As he came to realize fully the importance of the storytelling tradition in his community, he began telling stories in the Okanagan language and became as skilled in English storytelling by his mid-seventies. Wendy Wickwire met Robinson while working on her doctoral thesis and recognized what, as Thomas King would later suggest, may well be "the most powerful storytelling voice in North America." He passed away in 1990-shortly after the publication of Write It on Your Heart, the first of three story collections which will ensure the survival of the epic world of Harry Robinson in many generations to come."
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Beginnings: The Age of the Animal People
- The First People
- Earth Diver
- Twins: White and Indian
- Coyote Gets a Name and Power
- Coyote Tricks Owl
- Coyote Disobeys Fox
- Coyote Plays a Dirty Trick
- The Flood
- Coyote Challenges God
- Part 2: The Native World: The Age of the Human People
- Saved By a Grizzly Bear
- Helped By a Wolverine
- Rescue of a Sister
- Throwing Spears
- Prophecy at Lytton
- Part 3: Stories of Power
- A Boy Receives Power from Two Birds
- A Woman Receives Power from the Deer
- Two Men Receive Power from Two Cranes
- Breaking Bones at a Stickgame
- Indian Doctor
- Part 4: World Unsettled: The Age of the White Man
- Fur Traders
- Captive in an English Circus
- To Hell and Back
- Puss In Boots
- Acknowledgements
