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.

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.

Acknowledgments

Preface

Symbols and Abbreviations

Introduction

The Colville-Okanagan land and its people

The languages

Colville-Okanagan social organization

Colville-Okanagan knowledge

The Texts

Autobiographical and ethnographic texts

Autobiography

Harvesting

Racing horses

A hunting trip

Marriage customs

After the birth of a child

Partnership butchering

The attainment of provisions

The rainy hunting trip

Tales of European origin

Black Pig

The grateful dead version 1

The grateful dead version 2

The Devil and the black man

captik¿¿

How Coyote got his powers

Coyote and Whale

Coyote and Grizzly

The two goats

Lynx and the virgin

BlueJay and Wolf

The transcription and analysis of the texts

Approximate phonemic transcriptions

Phrasal words and amalgams

Alternate forms

Inflectional and non-inflectional material

Derivational affixes

Inflectional affixes

Person Marking

The suffix -y¿

List in tabular form of remaining inflectional affixes

Word classes

Nominal and pronominal arguments

Autobiographical and ethnographic texts

Autobiography

Harvesting

Racing horses

A hunting trip

Marriage customs

After the birth of a child

Partnership butchering

The attainment of provisions

The rainy hunting trip

Tales of European origin

Black Pig

The grateful dead version 1 (unfinished

The grateful dead version 2

The Devil and the Black Face

captik¿¿

How Coyote got his powers

Coyote and Whale

Coyote and Grizzly

The two goats

Lynx and the virgin

Blue Jay and Wolf

Index of stems and inflectional affixes

Index of roots

Lexical affixes

Index and chronology of Pete Seymour's narrations

References.