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
How Coyote Brought the Salmon up the Columbia
Myth of Skunk (Cnikstia) and Fisher (Tcirtops)
Coyote, his Four Sons, and the Grizzly Bear
The Grandchildren of the Mountain Sheep
List of Works Cited in Volume 1
Illustrations
Map of the Salish and their Neighbours
Cartography by the Audio-Visual Centre of
Simon Fraser University.