"Grandpa, Tell Us A Story!" Coyote Stories, Interviews and Haikus from an Indigenous Perspective.

Life of a Dog on the Rez

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On today’s episode, I am excited to bring you several different styles of storytelling. Since our emergence, storytelling was always used to pass on cultural knowledge, ceremony, history, language, a form of entertainment and a guide for how the people were to exist in the upper world. We start off with the re-telling of two stories from the book "Coyote Stories", authored by Christine Quintasket who wrote under the pen name, Mourning Dove (Humishuma). Christine was Okanagan from the Colville Reservation in north-central Washington. Her novel was first published in 1933 and was a collection of coyote stories, folklore and legends handed down to her by her people. Next, I will bring you an interview my cousin and brother Emmett “Scheme” Garcia, an accomplished storyteller and children’s book author. He will share with you, my wonderful listening audience, two Tamayame stories “Coyote and the Sky: How the Sun, Moon, and Stars Began", and "Sister Rabbit's Tricks". Then we jump into something that I am really excited to feature, Rez Dog Haikus! Lastly, we wrap up our storytelling episode with my favorite upcoming storyteller and podcaster, my son Louis. He will recite the story of "The Gruffalo’s Child", a follow up to his telling of "The Gruffalo", on episode 5, titled “The moral of the story is”. So sit back, get all the snacks you need, and find a comfortable spot to enjoy today's episode, “Grandpa, Tell Us A Story!” Coyote Stories, Interviews and Haikus from an Indigenous Perspective.
To contact Emmett Garcia for purchase of his children's books or to book him for an upcoming event, please email him at [email protected]