Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thoughts on Louis Bird
I'll be using this post to note Louis Bird and his book "The Spirit Lives in the Mind: Omushkego Stories, Lives, and Dreams".
Monday, February 1, 2010
Other Versions
So, here goes my attempt at changing up a bit of one of Harry's stories and seeing what it looks like... This is from "To Hell and Back" :
See, he gets the gold that way without working for it, without somebody giving it to him. He gets it for nothing. That's a good way at that time, for him, so he does that. Nobody knows. He kills somebody and then he gets the money, gets the gold, and whoever he kills, he throws them in the Thompson River. "Goodbye!" He does that four times. He kills two white men, and one Indian, and one Chinaman. But this Indian, the one that he kills, he must have come from some different direction, maybe from Bella Coola, or from Lillooet, some place. Strange, because they don't miss him. He knows that. You know, he knows that they were strangers. If he kills them, they will never be missed around here. They might miss them where they came from, but not here.
See, he gets the gold that way without working for it, without somebody giving it to him. He gets it for nothing. That's a good way at that time, for him, so he does that. Nobody knows. He kills somebody and then he gets the money, gets the gold, and whoever he kills, he throws them in the Thompson River. "Goodbye!" He does that four times. He kills two white men, and one Indian, and one Chinaman. But this Indian, the one that he kills, he must have come from some different direction, maybe from Bella Coola, or from Lillooet, some place. Strange, because they don't miss him. He knows that. You know, he knows that they were strangers. If he kills them, they will never be missed around here. They might miss them where they came from, but not here.
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