The Salish People
The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout
Volume III: The Mainland Halkomelem 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 III
The Mainland Halkomelem
Later Prehistoric Man in British Columbia (1895)
Ethnological Studies of the Mainland Halkomelem, a Division of the Salish of British Columbia (1902)
Ethnography (including place-names)
Mythological Account of the Origin of the Siyak
Myth of the Kwakwalitsa, or Blanket-beating
The Origin of the Sqoiaqi [Sxwaixwe]
Ethnography (including place-names)
Story of the Magic Water and Salmon
The Story of Smelo and Skelutsemes
Ethnological Report on the Stseelis [Chehalis] and Skaulits [Scowlitz] Tribes of the Halkomelem Division of the Salish of British Columbia (1904)
