Grandmother Cedar Tree - audio story by Johnny Moses, Tulalip Native Amer

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Johnny Moses is a Samish speaking storyteller from British Columbia. He shares the story of Grandmother Cedar Tree.

The Grandmother Cedar Tree story will be told in the Samish language and English. This story originated among the Samish people...then it traveled to Vancouver Island as our stories travel with the women in our tribe. As they would marry into another tribe, they would carry the stories with them. And this is how this story was thought of, as a Cowitchen story, but it is not a Cowitchen story. It originates among our people in the Samish area.

This is The Grandmother Cedar Tree Story.

http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/prog8/mp3/Turtle%20Island.mp3



http://www.wisdomoftheelders.org/prog8/transcript08_tis.htm

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1. thanks!

good story. been passed around and around.

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2. You are welcome

I saw him on a show last night, Inside Passage, about Northwest Coast Indians. He is amazing.

[knowbody0]

3. we have loads of Moses families here (Tulalip)

I have enjoyed Raymond Moses stories for twenty plus years. I met him one night welcoming the Silver Salmon home under a full moon. Back then you could have walked on them they were so plentiful.

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4. Raymond Moses - is that his father?

Do you know anything about Johnny? I went to his Red Cedar circles in San Francisco. They were so good. I wish there was a Red Cedar Circle where I live now.

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5. He's an elder, about 70 years old

with tons of brothers sisters nephews and nieces, but I do not believe he has his own children. I'm looking for a photo, his face is pure joy and love, just like Johnny's!