Ethnographer Wendy Wickwire compiled and edited this second collection of stories (the first, Write It on Your Heart , was published by Talonbooks in 1990) as told to her by Okanagan Native storyteller Robinson (1900-1990) in his own English translation. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller

Politics & Social Sciences

Robinson, Harry

Social Sciences

Univ of Washington Pr

Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America. Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected for this volume tell from a First Nations point of view about the origin of the world; the time of the animal people; the time before the coming of the white man; the stories of power; the prophet cult and its predictions of profound cultural and economic change; and the post-contact world. The collection ends with Robinsonâs own version of Puss in Boots,â true in every psychological detail to the European story, but set in the ranching country of the Similkameen Valley. This collection is unique in that it chronicles not only the treasure house of a vibrant First Nations culture, but also the sweeping changes which took place in that culture as it began to interact with the new colonists who introduced a foreign language and writing to the mythic world of Coyote, Fox and Owl. As more and more of his listeners, First Nations included, understood only English, Robinson began to tell his old stories in this new language in order to keep them alive. By the time Wendy Wickwire met him in 1977, he had become as skilled a storyteller in English as he had been in his mother tongue. Robinson knew that the profound cultural changes which had taken place in his lifetime would continue and took to heart the matter of preserving the storytelling tradition. With his approval, Wickwire recorded his stories and brought them together in this critically acclaimed collection. Write It on Your Heart stands as a monument to the epic world of Harry Robinson, ensuring its survival in the many generations to come.

Write It on Your Heart : The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller

Wickwire, Wendy

Talonbooks, Ltd.

Write It on Your Heart is a celebration of the late Harry Robinson, one of the great storytellers of the Interior Salish people of North America. Collected over a ten-year period, the stories selected for this volume tell from a First Nations point of view about the origin of the world; the time of the animal people; the time before the coming of the white man; the stories of power; the prophet cult and its predictions of profound cultural and economic change; and the post-contact world. The collection ends with Robinson’s own version of Puss in Boots,” true in every psychological detail to the European story, but set in the ranching country of the Similkameen Valley. This collection is unique in that it chronicles not only the treasure house of a vibrant First Nations culture, but also the sweeping changes which took place in that culture as it began to interact with the new colonists who introduced a foreign language and writing to the mythic world of Coyote, Fox and Owl. As more and more of his listeners, First Nations included, understood only English, Robinson began to tell his old stories in this new language in order to keep them alive. By the time Wendy Wickwire met him in 1977, he had become as skilled a storyteller in English as he had been in his mother tongue. Robinson knew that the profound cultural changes which had taken place in his lifetime would continue and took to heart the matter of preserving the storytelling tradition. With his approval, Wickwire recorded his stories and brought them together in this critically acclaimed collection. Write It on Your Heart stands as a monument to the epic world of Harry Robinson, ensuring its survival in the many generations to come.

Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Talonbooks

Many of the stories in Harry Robinson’s second collection feature the shoo-MISH, or nature helpers” that assist humans and sometimes provide them with special powers. Some tell of individuals who use these powers to heal themselves; others tell of Indian doctors who have been given the power to heal others. Still others tell of power encounters: a woman comes alive” after death; a boy meets a singing squirrel; a voice from nowhere predicts the future.

Following on two previous collections Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004)Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of oral narratives by Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson. Living by Stories includes a number of classic stories set in the mythological age” about the trickster/transformer, Coyote, and his efforts to rid the world of bad people spatla or monsters,” but this new volume is more important for its presentation of historical narratives set in the more recent past. As with the mythological accounts, there is much chaos and conflict in these stories, mainly due to the arrival of new quasi-monstersSHAmas” (Whites)who dispossess Indians” of their lands and rights, impose new political and legal systems, and erect roads, rail lines, mines, farms, ranches and towns on the landscape.

Living by Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory

Haffke, Henry A., Gee Bee: The Real Story of the Granveille Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes

Gee Bee --The Real Story of the Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes

History

Haffke, Henry A.

Benjamin, Robert

Americas

Vip Aero Pub

Nature power: In the spirit of an Okanagan storyteller

Wickwire, Wendy C., Editor

Douglas&McIntyre

As Victorian Britain was gripped by 'the football craze', eight men laid the foundations at one of the world's greatest clubs. These pioneers ranged from miners to brewery owners, fitness fanatics to portly beer drinkers. From Stretford, Ancoats, Birmingham, Bolton, Darlington, Chirk and Crewe, some were rebels, others were leaders. All were grafters. The Men Who Made Manchester United brings you the definitive history of Manchester United before Sir Matt Busby's post-war halcyon days. Inside are tales that will make you squirm, laugh and cry: the transfer fee of two freezers of ice cream, the tragic death of a young footballer and his forgotten family, the fight for the right to unionise, Edwardian Cockney Reds, severed fingers and the pelting stones of the angry residents of Budapest. This is the story behind the club's name and colours, the building of Old Trafford, the founding of the PFA and the creation of the Academy. It's filled with tales that will fascinate and entertain.

The Men Who Made Manchester United: The Untold Story

Sports & Outdoors

Soccer

Pitch Publishing Ltd

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