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"The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound were an important part of the oral tradition by which beliefs, values, and customs were handed from one generation to another. Vi Hilbert, a Skagit Indian, grew up at a time when many of the old social patterns survived and when everyone still spoke the ancestral language. As an adult, when she realized that native language and culture were being forgotten, she began to work with linguists and anthropologists in recording and translating as much of the Lushootseed oral tradition as possible. Haboo is her collection ofthirty-three stories"--

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Oral stories form a portal through which rich cultural and linguistic information is passed from generation to generation. Traditional stories, called syeyehub in the Lushootseed language, are among the most valued oral traditions of the Coast Salish people of the southern and eastern shores of Puget Sound. Tellings from Our Elders, Volume 2, presents nine syeyehub told in the Skagit River dialects, transcribed from recordings of the last generation of Elders who learned Lushootseed as an exclusive mother tongue. Presented in an interlinearized format with full morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and English translations, the stories open a doorway to important cultural knowledge, specialized vocabulary, and patterns of narrative stylistics typical of Coast Salish storytelling.

Puget Sound Salish languages --- Puget Sound Salish Indians --- Dxw̳läšucid languages --- Lushootseed languages --- North Puget Sound Salish languages --- Northern Puget Sound Salish languages --- Puget Salish languages --- South Puget Sound Salish languages --- Southern Puget Sound Salish languages --- Toughnowawmish languages --- Whulshootseed languages --- Whulshootseed Salish languages --- Salishan languages --- Lushootseed Indians --- North Puget Sound Salish Indians --- Northern Puget Sound Salish Indians --- South Puget Sound Salish Indians --- Southern Coast Salish Indians --- Toughnowawmish Indians --- Indians of North America --- Salishan Indians --- Textbooks for foreign speakers --- English. --- Revival. --- Coast Salish Indians