Alexander Thomas

Edward Sapir

John Thomas

Morris Swadesh

This last segment of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts includes three first-hand accounts of the Tlkwa:na, or Wolf Ritual, a principal ceremony of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations of the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The ritual, which takes several days to enact, is described in detail, from the howling of the “Wolves” in human form, to the abduction of children to their forest lair and the return of these initiates to perform newly learned dances. Also included are Sapir’s field record of a Tlkwa:na of 1910; his correspondence with his chief interpreters Alex Thomas and Frank Williams; and autobiographical stories by Alex Thomas. Published in English.

The whaling indians: West Coast legends and stories — Part 12 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts

Origin of the wolf ritual

These Tales of Extraordinary Experience detail encounters with spirit-beings and other supernatural occurrences, as related by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of Vancouver Island’s west coast. They were recorded primarily in the area of Port Alberni between 1910 and 1923 by the famous linguist Edward Sapir and by his chief interpreter, Alexander Thomas.

The whaling indians: West Coast legends and stories — Part 10 of the Sapir-Thomas Nootka texts

Tales of extraordinary experience

Robert E. Longacre

Stanley Stewart Newman

Leonard Newmark

Robert Niel Pehrson

Eeva Kangasmaa Minn

1955-1958

The Bilateral Network of Social Relations in Könkämä Lapp District

Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography

Yana Dictionary

Morris Swadesh

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