This is what they say : a story cycle dictated in Northern Alberta in 1928

Type

Book

Authors

Francois Mandeville ( Mandeville, Francois )

Ronald Scollon ( Scollon, Ronald )

ISBN 10

1553654730

ISBN 13

9781553654735

Tags

Alberta, Dene, Dene -- Folklore, Dene -- Alberta -- Folklore, François Mandeville -- 1878-1952, Dene -- Social life and customs, Oral tradition -- Northern Canada, Storytellers -- Canada -- Biography, Métis -- Biography, Oral tradition, Storytellers, Métis, Northern Canada, Dene language -- Texts, Dene language

Abstract

"Francois Mandeville was a master storyteller, born at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories in 1878. Fifty years later, at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, he dictated a book of stories to a young and very talented Chinese linguist, Li Fang-kuei, who wrote them down in the Chipewyan language. Ron Scollon, who first translated these stories in the 1970s after studying with Li, returns to them here after a lifetime of joyful work and serious play among the mysteries of human language."--Back cover.

Description

286 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.

Biblio Notes

Language Note:
Includes some text in Dene.

Contents:
How copper was discovered --
How iron was discovered --
Raven Head --
His grandmother raised him --
Scabby --
Old axe, story one --
Old axe, story two --
The cannibal --
The man who hibernated with a bear --
The adventures of Beaulieu --
The man who became a wolf --
The cheating gambler --
The flight of the last Dogribs --
The shaman of the Yellowknives --
The wise man, story one --
The wise man, story two --
Education --
About fish --
How I made a canoe --
How I tanned a moose hide --
How I hunted beaver.

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