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The Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack by Dorothy I D Kennedy; Randy Bouchard; Charlie Mack is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack about?

Early in their ethnographic work, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy were privileged to meet Charlie Mack. Born on the Mount Currie Reserve in 1899, he was a fascinating character and a font of wisdom, exemplifying by his way of life, his skills in trapping and canoe-making, and his knowledge of the history of his people, the living world of the Lilwat, which the young ethnologists were able to record on tape and in their notes and photographs. Most important among what Charlie Mack gave them was a wide corpus of stories; he was a master storyteller, holding his listeners spellbound with his animated and dramatic delivery in both Lilwat and English. Charlie Macks stories were originally recorded in his native language as part of a systematic government-sponsored effort to create public awareness of the threatened indigenous languages of British Columbia and Washington State, and were eventually published as a highly popular translated and edited collection, Lillooet Stories (1977), by the British Columbia Archives. More time spent with Charlie Mack before his death in 1990 revealed to Kennedy and Bouchard that his worldview embedded a moral code, information about the environment

Author

Dorothy I D Kennedy; Randy Bouchard; Charlie Mack

Publisher

Talon Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889226401

Subjects

History, Humanities