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Oral Tradition, Pacific Northwest
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(1925-2005)
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The files contains a series of photocopies of traditional stories from Indigenous groups in the Pacific Northwestern region, including "The Origin of Light and Fire," "The Original High-hat Story, or how the Chief's Tall Hat Saved His People from the Flood," "The First Beaver," "The Story of Black Cloud," "How People First Came to Cowichan," and "The Origin of the Cohoe Salmon, a Frazer River Legend of the Yale Tribes" among others. Also includes a booklet containing stories about the origin of deer and the moon. Many of these stories were photocopied from the Archives of British Columbia.