Lushootseed (Puget Sound Salish)
- Thom Hess, Lushootseed Reader with Introductory Grammar. Volume I: Four Stories from Edward Sam. Univ. of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No. 11, 1995. 202 pp., with accompanying 30 minute cassette tape. $20. - A classroom-tested introductory textbook for the Coast Salish language of the Puget Sound area.- The book consists of a Foreword and an Introduction; twenty-two grammar lessons, each with grammatical questions and exercises (pp. 1-116); answers to all grammar questions and exercises (pp. 123-135); the verbatim transcripts of four Lushootseed texts (pp. 137-155); a Glossary (pp. 157-198); and an Appendix on the Lushootseed sound system (pp. 199-201). This chrestomathy should enable one to read and understand the Lushootseed texts within eight weeks. A thirty-minute recording of the four texts narrated by Edward Sam accompanies the book. - Order from: UMOPL, Linguistics, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812 (e-mail: li_am@selway.umt.edu). Orders must be prepaid in US funds (checks made out to UMOPL). Prices include shipping costs to US addresses. For Canada or Mexico add $3; elsewhere add $8 (surface) or $12 (airmail). [April 1995]
- Dawn Bates, Thom Hess, & Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary. Edited by Dawn Bates. Univ. of Washington Press/Lushootseed Research Corporation, 1994. 396 pp. $30. - A completely reformatted, revised, and expanded edition of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). The editor has integrated Hess's analyses with the field notes of Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit elder and teacher of Lushootseed. Data are included from Skagit, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, Swinomish, Puyallup. - Order from: Univ. of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096 (tel: 800-441-4115; fax: 800-669-7993). [Jan. 1995]
- A practical manual is available for Lushootseed (Coast Salish, Puget Sound area of W. Washington): Lushootseed, the Language of the Skagit, Nisqually and Other Tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction (Books 1 & 2) (195 pp. & 225 pp., $10 for both [sold only as a set]). A set of 3 cassette tapes (2 hours) accompanies the manual and is available for an extra $10. Order from: Daybreak Star Press, P.O. Box 99100, Seattle, WA 98199. [Sept.-Dec. 1988]