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Salmonberry: Synopsis
Salmonberry: A West Coast fairy tale
Her mother dead, her father absent, Salmonberry befriends an
ornery seal. Jealous stepmother arrives and murders Teabag the
seal. Alienated and lonely, Salmonberry cultivates her mother-taught
gifts of gardening and cooking. Harvest dance announced, stepmother
and daughter (hand puppet) go. With help Salmonberry attends festival,
loses one of a pair of glass floats that her mother and Teabag
have given her. A Coast Salish prince finds the ball and determines
to find the story of the glass float, and thus the owner. Many
storytelling antics later, the owner is identified and a friendship
centered on storytelling and a vegetarian restaurant follows.
The prince in this fairy tale is Native. Salmonberry, a Cinderella
character, is the daughter of immigrants. The setting, the west
coast of North America, has its own seal, Teabag. The stepmother,
bent on destruction, isn’t ultimately victorious, and Salmonberry
as well as Teabag make unexpected come-backs.synopsis link end
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