Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival
Turtle Island Storyteller Roy Wilson
What I'm All About My name is Roy Wilson. I am an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian tribe. I was born with an Indian father and a non-Indian mother. I have Cowlitz blood, Chinook blood, Yakama blood, and Iroquois blood. In my tribe, I served for thirty-two years...
Turtle Island Storyteller Carlos Calica
Our Songs Have Meaning Hello, my name is Carlos Calica. I come from the Confederate Tribes of Warm Springs. I was asked to come here to share today on the Tribal Rhythms program on Native American drumming and the history of the drumming and singing of the Warm...
Turtle Island Storyteller Vernon Kennedy
Hi, this is Vernon Kennedy, Paiute from the Burns Paiute tribe. I'd like to share this coyote story. Coyote was with Esha who was going to be in a fight. As Esha was getting ready he told his brother don't watch me even though you hear a lot of fighting. Don't even...
Turtle Island Storyteller Spider Mocassin
A Convention of Satyrs My name is Spider Moccasin and I'm an enrolled tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. I'm a Wasco/Warm Springs person. I'm a cartoonist and a rock and roll musician I'm currently collaborating with a Yakama tribal member, Jay...
Turtle Island Storyteller John Bevis
Remember your Weyakin My name is John Bevis. I'm a member of the Umatilla tribe. I'm Umatilla /Walla Walla ancestry. My Indian name is Mowitit, which comes from my grandmother's side the Barnhardt side. Born and raised on the Umatilla Reservation. I was exposed to a...
Turtle Island Storyteller Gerald Primeaux
Gerald Primeaux Senior, I am a Huntawa Lakota from the Yankton Sioux Reservation. My name is Chactawa which means Twin Eagle Boy. I was born in 1963 in Yankton, South Dakota, my dad was Asa Primeaux Senior. His dad, my grampa, was Harry Primeaux Senior. My great...
Turtle Island Storyteller Lillian Pitt
It Feeds My Soul My name is Lillian Pitt and my Indian name is Wakamu and my ancestry on the BIA papers is Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama. The memories of the elders are very special because they are the last of the quote-unquote traditional type of people who saw...
Turtle Island Storyteller Pat Courtney Gold
Weaving History My maiden name is Courtney and I was born and raised on the Warm Springs Reservation. The Wasco people were known for fishing and for trading. The salmon runs produced enough fish for us so that each family could catch hundreds and hundreds of pounds....
The Voices of Our Ancestors A Native American Storytelling Gathering
Saturday March 28th 2015 12pm-9pm Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 RSVP at the Facebook Event Page Invited Master Storytellers: Elaine Grinnell (Jamestown s'Klallam) Johnny Moses (Tulalip) Harvest Moon (Quinault) Raven...
NISA Eighth Annual Storytelling Festival
The Northwest Indian Storytelling Association's (NISA) 2013 Festival and Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshops celebrated our eighth season of tribal storytelling in the Pacific Northwest. With friends and relatives joining us from all over the region, generations...
