Tellings From Our Elders: Lushootseed syeyehubOral stories form a portal through which rich cultural and linguistic information is passed from generation to generation. The two volumes of Tellings from Our Elders present twenty seven stories in the Skagit Valley dialects of Lushootseed, the language of the indigenous people of the southern and eastern shores of Puget Sound. These stories or syeyehub are told by the last generation to learn the language as its mother tongue, and in many cases were