Category: Sacred Language
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Eugene Harry shares prayers
This page contains video links by Eugene Harry. To learn more about him and his stories click here. Eugene Harry on preparing yourself for hunting: Eugene Harry shares a thank you song: Eugene Harry on fixing your mind: Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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Ceremonial Language: Thank-yous
Thanking the teachers and their helpers ts’iyutum kwu’elh tu lhwulup ni’ yu hwuw’tsusun’uq tthu shqwultuns kwthu s’ul’eluhw tst kwun’atul’ ’u tthu ts’uwtuns. thimat ts’iyutaalt. hay tseep ’ewulh. We thank all of you who are teaching the language of our Elders, together with the teaching assistants. We offer our gratitude. Thank you all. Randy: Thanking everyone at school Thanking…
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smulyitul: Revitalizing the Traditional Coast Salish Wedding
View and download the pdf document: See the MA project by Sti’tum’atulwut, Bernadette Peter: Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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Longhouse Language
This page contains downloadable documents about vocabulary, phrases and speech used in the longhouse. Download PDFs relating to longhouse language: Download PDFs relating to language used at a memorial: Webpage on vocabulary used in a longhouse naming ceremony: Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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Image: St. Ann’s Church
Source: Rozen, D. L. (1977). Helk’emínem St’íwi7elh: Indian Prayers of Southeast Vancouver Island. Photo by David Rozen. Learn more about this site:
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Image: Shaker Church leaders, John Slocum and Louis Yowaluck
Source: Smithsonian Institution, National Archives (3021) Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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Map: Diffusion of the Indian Shaker Church
This map appears in Volume 7 of the Handbook of North American Indians, published in 1978. Amoss, P. T. (1978). The Indian Shaker Church. In W. Suttles (Ed.), Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 7: Northwest Coast (pp. 633–639). Smithsonian Institution. Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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hay ch q’a’, si’em’ | Prayer Song
Watch the performance by Monique Joseph, July 2024: Projects > Sacred Language > Current page
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’uy’ tumuhw | Song of Thanks
Performed by Marlin Marsden, July 2024.
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Willie Seymour on Cultural Teachings
Watch Willie Seymour | qwulthuts’tun speak about Cultural Teachings in Hul’q’umi’num’ Projects > Sacred Language > Current page