MS 3777 Tahwah's Geology, or The Legend of the Big Beaver
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content: NAA MS 3777
name: label: Collector
content: Chapman, R. H. (Robert Hollister), 1868-1920
topic: label: Topic
content: Salish Indians -- (identification uncertain)
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content: Folklore
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Collector
content: Chapman, R. H. (Robert Hollister), 1868-1920
culture: label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
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content: 2 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: September 7, 1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3777
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Probably a Kutenai story or a Salish (Flathead or Kalispel; the 2 Salish tribes have lived together near Flathead Lake for many, many years.) The Kutenai on the Flathead Reservation live near Big Arm, on west side of Flathead Lake. Both Kutenai and Flathead Salish have told me myths about Flathead Lake. Flathead Lake is in western Montana, not in the area of any Algonquian tribe. If the correspondence reveals the tribal origin of the story, will you please let me know ? I don't know whether it is Kutenai or Salish. Ella E. Clark- 1956.