Visitors Who Never Left

The Origin of the People of Damelahamid

Edited by Kenneth B. Harris & Frances M. Robinson
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843553, 162 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774857994, 162 pages, January 1974

Table of contents

Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Introduction / Frances M.P. Robinson

Foreword / Kenneth B. Harris

Photographs

Story One: In the Beginning
The Two Villages
The Two Survivors and the Search for a Husband
The Happenings in Heaven
The Gambling Game
The Birth of Damelahamid

Story Two: People of Damelahamid
The Fatal Game
The First Punishment of Damelahamid
Meeting the Spirits
The Journey Home

Story Three: People of Damelahamid
Strange Feasts
The Flood
The Medeek

Story Four: Move to Kitsekucla
The Big Snowfall
Adventures of Two Sisters
Moving of Many People
Lo-tres-ku's Story

Story Five: The Origin of the Thunderbird, Twe Tjea-Adku

Story Six: The Origin of the Killer Whale
Gudeloch and the Princess
Gooch nach no emgit Finds a Bride
The Kidnapping

Story Seven: The Origin of Weeget and Quisken
Strange Journeys
Weeget and the Water

Story Eight: How the People of Damelahamid First Brought Their Form of Civilization to the Queen Charlotte Islands
The Strange Pregnancy
Return to Damelahamid

Conclusion

Glossary
Place Names
Indian Words
Personal Names

Major Sources

Description

These legends, translated by Chief Kenneth Harris, tell of the origin
of the Native people who live in the region between the Skeena and Nass
rivers of British Columbia. Other stories tell of occurrences
particularly significant in the 'history' of the people -- the
origins of the 'Killer Whale' and 'Thunderbird
Twtjea-adku,' and the revenge of 'Medeek,' the great bear
who rose from the lake to punish people for breaking 'the law.'