Write it on your heart : the epic world of an Okanagan storyteller

Robinson, Harry 1900-1990 (Author). Wickwire, Wendy C. (Added Author).

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 0889222738
ISBN: 9780889222731
ISBN: 0919441327
ISBN: 9780919441323
Physical Description: print
319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Vancouver : Talonbooks : Theytus, 1989.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Beginnings: the age of the animal people : The first people -- Earth diver -- Twins: white and Indian -- Coyote gets a name and power -- Coyote disobeys fox -- Coyote plays a dirty trick -- The flood -- Coyote challenges God -- The native world: the age of the human people : Saved by a grizzly bear -- Helped bya wolverine -- Rescue of a sister -- Throwing spears -- Prophecy at Lytton -- Stories of power : A boy receives power from two birds -- A woman receives power from the deer -- Two men receive power from two cranes -- Breaking bones at a stickgame -- Indian doctor -- World unsettled: the age of the white man : Fur traders -- Captive in an English circus -- To hell and back -- Puss in boots.