Complete Seymour

Peter J. Seymour was a farmer, family man, hunter, jockey, and storyteller. Anthony Mattina is a professor of linguistics, emeritus, at the University of Montana–Missoula. He is the author of Colville-Okanagan Dictionary and the editor and co-translator (with Madeline DeSautel) of The Golden Woman: The Colville Narrative of Peter J. Seymour. Madeline DeSautel (1888–1979) was a native speaker of Colville-Okanagan. She and Anthony Mattina have co-translated two publications.

"This collection is an important addition to the canon of Native American narratives and literature and an essential volume for anyone studying Salish languages and linguistics."-Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas "The volume shows the value of deep engagement, of Seymour with his own elders and ancestral narrative traditions and of Mattina with the community of indigenous scholars and storytellers."-Bruce Granville Miller, Pacific Northwest Quarterly “For nearly half a century Tony Mattina has been one of those extremely rare scholars to stick with the narrative legacy of a single mysterious, master storyteller, whose genius and wisdom he serves up in this career-culminating book. Working in close auspices with the Colville-Okanagan communities of Washington State and British Columbia, Mattina [has] . . . produced this stunning and original anthology of their collective imagination, as filtered through the old, old stories of the now-deceased sage, Peter Seymour. [It is] one of those quiet triumphs that took one humanistic spirit from academia to unearth, translate, and contextualize the genius of another humanistic spirit from another cultural world.”-Peter Nabokov, author of Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroductionThe Colville-Okanagan land and its peopleThe languagesColville-Okanagan social organizationColville-Okanagan knowledgeThe TextsAutobiographical and ethnographic textsAutobiographyHarvestingRacing horsesA hunting tripMarriage customsAfter the birth of a childPartnership butcheringThe attainment of provisionsThe rainy hunting tripTales of European originBlack PigThe grateful dead version 1The grateful dead version 2The Devil and the black mancaptikʷɬHow Coyote got his powersCoyote and WhaleCoyote and GrizzlyThe two goatsLynx and the virginBlueJay and WolfThe transcription and analysis of the textsApproximate phonemic transcriptionsPhrasal words and amalgamsAlternate formsInflectional and non-inflectional materialDerivational affixesInflectional affixesPerson MarkingThe suffix -y̓List in tabular form of remaining inflectional affixesWord classesNominal and pronominal argumentsAutobiographical and ethnographic textsAutobiographyHarvestingRacing horsesA hunting tripMarriage customsAfter the birth of a childPartnership butcheringThe attainment of provisionsThe rainy hunting tripTales of European originBlack PigThe grateful dead version 1 (unfinishedThe grateful dead version 2The Devil and the Black FacecaptikʷɬHow Coyote got his powersCoyote and WhaleCoyote and GrizzlyThe two goatsLynx and the virginBlue Jay and WolfIndex of stems and inflectional affixesIndex of rootsLexical affixesIndex and chronology of Pete Seymour's narrationsReferences.