The Complete Seymour: Colville Storyteller

Peter J. Seymour was a Salish storyteller. He carried forward earlier tales of elders along with his own experiences as fewer and fewer native speakers were sharing the Colville-Okanagan language and oral literature. To thwart the demise of this language, over the course of a decade he passed along Salish stories not only to his family but also to linguist Anthony Mattina.
The Complete Seymour: Colville Storyteller includes Seymour's tales collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before his death. It documents Seymour's rich storytelling and includes detailed morphological analyses and translations of this endangered language. 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.


Author: Anthony Mattina, Peter J. Seymour
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 816
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.52lbs
Size: 10.33h x 7.22w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780803277052

About the Author
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.