Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect
By Haida storytellers of Skidegate, recorded by John R. Swanton
Thirteen tales told in Haida at Skidegate on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, and written down in the winter of 1900-01 by the American anthropologist John R. Swanton, who printed them with an English translation in the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 29 (1905). The tellers include the chiefs Tom Stevens and Walter McGregor, John Sky of Those-born-at-Skedans, Job Moody, Abraham and Jimmy Sterling, with Henry Moody as interpreter. A reader will find the salmon boy Moldy-forehead, the birth of Shining-heavens, the Beaver and the Porcupine, the gambling-stick tales, a hunter's bear songs and the clans' accounts of their wars.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Qol-Qꜝᴀ′lg̣oda-i
- 2: Sîñ aga′ñ qeidag̣ā′g̣an
- 3: Watg̣adagā′ñ xe-ū′gi qa-ida′o g̣an ludā′ñgax̣idag̣an
- 4: Qꜝadax̣uā′ ga djî′łg̣eida lgîns
- 5: Tcꜝîñ qā′-idjît
- 6: Xō′yā gī nañ djā′ada g̣ā′xa gī′dax̣idā′g̣an
- 7: Sînxē′gaño
- 8: Tcꜝaawu′nkꜝa
- 9: Daiyū′-ał-lā′nas
- 10: Qꜝō′na-qē′g̣awa-i
- 11: A story told to accompany bear songs
- 12: Fight at the town of Da′x̣ua
- 13: War between the West Coast Haida and the Tlingit