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Elaine Grinnell
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Washington
Turtle Island Storyteller Pauline Hillaire
Let Them Stay
Pauline Hillaire
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( Speaks in Language)
To interpret what I said is merely an introduction. Hello my friends and relatives. I’m happy to be here today and my name is Pauline Hillaire and I come from the Lummi Nation.
Today I’d like to share with everyone that I am a storyteller. I am a historian. I’m a genealogist and I tell legends in schools and teach Indian songs to the kids to pass it on. It’s time for sharing. One of the things I do talk about in schools is the true stories – especially from the government documents. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller Harvest Moon
Kla How Yah
Harvest Moon
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Kla how yah.
Kla how yah means hello. Like Aloha, Kla how yah also means goodbye.
My name is Harvest Moon. I’m a Quinalut native, storyteller and basket weaver. My name, Harvest Moon, was given to me by my great grandfather. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller Gene Tagaban
Our Life is a Story
Gene Tagaban
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(Speaks in language)
I just said, “Hi”. My Tlingit name is Guy Yaaw’. I’m from the T’akdeintaan Clan, the Raven Freshwater Sockeye Clan from Hoonah, Alaska. I’m the child of Wooshketaan, Eagle Thunderbird Clan (L) in Juneau, Alaska. The original name of Juneau is called (L)”the place where the flounders gather”.
I’m the grandchild of a Thunderbird, (speaks in language). I am Tlingit, Cherokee and Filipino. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller, the late Vi Hilbert
The Cedar and the Salmon
Vi Hilbert
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I’m Vi (Taq.Se.Blu) Hilbert, daughter of Louise and Charlie Anderson, from the Upper Scagit tribe, which is near Cedar Woolley near the Scagit River.
The cedar and the salmon. People in our culture, the salmon were people. Each species was known to come and go at certain times and they were honored for the lives that they gave to my people for sustenance. They were honored in song and prayer. They were spoken to as if they would understand everything that was said to them because everything that has life also has spirit. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller Joyce Victoria Ross Button
I Have Enjoyed My Life
Joyce Victoria Ross Button
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My name is Joyce Victoria Ross Button. I work at the Yakama Nation Library. I’ve been here back and forth for about ten years. I’ve been working mainly in the Strong Heart Room. It’s a collection of rare books that Nepal Strong Heart had when he was back in the black and white films.
I’m also a storyteller. I come from a long line of storytellers. My mother was from the Columbia River Moses band and Kalispell Kootenai tribes. I also am Yakama descendant.
I’m forty-eight years old and I go to the schools and tell the Yakama legends, the Kootenai and Kalispell legends. I get the children involved in the story to where they’re playacting out their parts. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller Christina Dupres
Christina Dupres
Sonny and Cher and the North Dakota Getaway
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One of the things that really compels me is the problem with history, especially the history of indigenous people. Then last my own history, where do I fit in as a native woman? How does my experience and the experience of a native individual speak to the group as a whole. Read more »
Turtle Island Storyteller Vivian Harrison
Because It’s Traditional
Vivian Harrison
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My name’s Vivian Harrison and I have my mother’s Indian name, StuYat. I was born right here on the Yakama Reservation at Harrah, my uncle’s house at a place called Charlie’s Pond.My mother’s mother was from the Palouse Band over towards Idaho on the Snake River.My mother’sfather is from Spearfish, the WishramBand. My father is from the White Swan area, Yakama.So I’m completely Plateau and I was born in 1945.
My mother was a weaver and a bead worker and she was very proficient with taking care of salmon in every way. By that I mean cleaning it, cutting it, drying it and preparing it in other ways.That’s a mainstay of our diet on the Columbia River and that was where I grew up. Read more »
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