Chipmunk Talking

"The First People come alive in the story. . . . They swirl around you as the Turtle is saying his thing or as Chipmunk is saying something. . . . . They swirl around you and you feel the Indian medicine. . . . This is Chipmunk talking to you.  This is Coyote talking to you.  This is the Elk and the Deer and the Eagle, and this is Hawk. . . . . All these things suddenly come alive.  They as just as alive as they were a thousand years ago."   

Schitsu'umsh elder Cliff SiJohn from Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane p. 197 and Carry Forth the Stories pp. 78 and 185 (recorded in 1997)

 

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