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Title Tellings from our elders : Lushootseed sy[schwa]y[schwa]hub. Volume 1, Snohomish texts / as told by Martha Williams Lamont, Elizabeth Charles Krise, Edward Sam, and Agnes Jules James ; [transcribed, translated, and compiled by] David Beck and Thom Hess
Published Vancouver [British Columbia] : UBC Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 600 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series First Nations languages
First nations languages.
Notes Includes tales previously published in the Lushootseed reader
The symbol for schwa appears on the title page
"The stories included here are selections made initially by Thom Hess for use in preparing lexicographical and pedagogical materials, and represent the most narratively complete and accessible Snohomish in the Hess and Metcalf collections"--Page 3 of introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-600)
Notes Text in English and Salish
Subject Puget Sound Salish languages -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English
Puget Sound Salish languages -- Texts
Puget Sound Salish Indians -- Folklore
Puget Sound Salish languages -- Revival
Tales -- Washington (State)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Puget Sound Salish Indians
Puget Sound Salish languages
Tales
Washington (State)
Genre/Form Folklore
Textbooks
Texts
Form Electronic book
Author Sam, Edward, storyteller
Beck, David, 1963- transcriber, translator, editor.
Hess, Thom, 1936-2009, transcriber, translator, editor.
Lamont, Martha Williams, storyteller
Krise, Elizabeth Charles, storyteller
James, Agnes Jules, storyteller
ISBN 9780774823579
0774823577
9780774828123
0774828129
9780774823555
0774823550
Other Titles Lushootseed syeyehub
Lushootseed sy[schwa]y[schwa]hub
Snohomish texts