The stories teach and tell of values and morals. He showed the right way to live with each other and with the earth and its creatures. Many of the stories tell of Snč̓l̓é – Coyote – who prepared the world for human beings who were yet to come. Salish elder Eneas “Tom Puss” Pierre remembered that during the long winter nights when he was a little boy, he and other children would listen “with our mouths hanging open” in amazement. The children are encouraged to sit quietly and listen with thoughts of their own about being part of the stories. Stories are told by parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents to the younger generations. This is a time of year when the Selis and Qlispel people relax from the summer and early fall harvesting seasons. “Storytelling begins after the first snowfall. Winner, Montana Book Award-Honor Book, 2019ĬLICK HERE TO WATCH A RECORDING OF CORRIE’S PRESENTATIONĮlders and staff from the Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee share traditional stories and reflect on what these stories tell us about tribal culture, history, and the people’s relationship with the land.įrom the Culture Committee’s Facebook page: She offers a foil for the poet’s first-person Montana narrative and enriches the historical perspective of the poetry, providing a female voice to counterbalance the often male-centered discovery and frontier narrative. Julia lived with Clark in the then-frontier town of St. The remaining sections are persona poems written in the voice of Julia Hancock Clark, wife of William Clark, who she married soon after he returned from his western expedition with Meriwether Lewis. Three of the book’s five sections follow poet Corrie Williamson’s experiences while living for five years in western Montana. The River Where You Forgot My Name travels between early 1800s Virginia and Missouri and present-day western Montana, a place where “bats sail the river of dark.” In their crosscutting, the poems in this collection reflect on American progress technology, exploration, and environment and the ever-changing landscape at the intersection of wilderness and civilization.
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