Through Our Eyes – Sxwi'em': Stories from the Hul'q'umi'num' people

tthu slhuw’een’ | Wonderful Gift

Downloads: story text (pdf)slideshow version of the story (pdf)play based on this story (pdf)vocab list (pdf) By Michaela Daniels, Delores

An encounter by the river turns deadly with lasting consequences, in this story by Amanda Harris, translated into Hul’q’umi’num’ by

Jordana Seymour and Donald White are canoe pullers in the Rainbow canoe club, Stz’uminus, British Columbia. Delores Louie translates

Playing soccer is hard work, as we see in this story by Alex Crocker and Melainee Sampson, translated into Hul’q’umi’num’

In this story by Nick Joe, translated into Hul’q’umi’num’ by Ruby Peter, it is left up to your imagination about

tth’upsi’athun’ ’i’ tthu smuyuth | Squirrel and DeerStory by Liam Knott and Delores Louie In this story we find out

tu sum’e’kwulh squmkwala’ | The injured tadpole Story by Brandon Sampson, Brydon Sampson, and Ruby Peter 01. ’een’thu

Train hard! Play hard! Don’t give up!

Blake and Jack Seymour tell true story about heeding the warning from the owl, read by their grandfather, George Seymour.

Here’s what Alexis’ mother told her about the owl.