The Salish People
The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout
Volume I: The Thompson and the Okanagan Edited with an Introduction by Ralph Maud
Vancouver • Talonbooks • 1978
“Mr. Hill-Tout’s work, in fact, constitutes a very important local contribution to the ethnology of the native races of the west coast.”
G.M. Dawson
Director of the Canadian Geological Survey, in 1900.
Contents of Volume I
The Thompson and the Okanagan
Sqaktkquaclt, or the Benign-faced, the Cannes of the Ntlakapamuq [Thompson], British Columbia (1899)
Ethnography (including place-names)
Mortuary Customs
Tlapas Cimams, or the Forgotten Wife Story
Story of the Adventures of Snikiap the Coyote, and his Son, Ntlikcumtum
Koakoela, or Husband-root Myth
Oitcut Story (She Burns Herself)
Snuya Cpitakoetl, or Beaver Story
Story of Snikiap [Coyote], Qainon [Magpie], Tzalas [Diver], and Spate [Black Bear]
Story of Hanni’s Wife and the Revenge of her Son
Marriage Customs of the Yale Tribe
Report on the Ethnology of the Okanaken [Okanagan] of British Columbia, an Interior Division of the
Stealing the Fire from the Upper World
