sentences:  The earliest descriptions of the oral traditions of Salishan peoples were the collections of Nuxalk (Bella Coola) mythology by anthropologist Franz Boas collected in the water
  
  Many Salishan peoples distinguish between two basic genres of narrative, one is traditional stories corresponding roughly to what is called myth in English and which takes place in a Myth Age before the arrival of the modern age, in which plants, animals and weather phenomena are anthropomorphized.The other type of stories includes historical accounts and "news" or informational stories.For the Nlaka'pamux of the Fraser Canyon-Nicola regions in British Columbia, the genre of traditional narrative is called "" whereas the informational narrative is called "spíləẋm", in Montana Salish (Flathead) the distinction is between "sqʷlú(ṁt)" and "sṁiʔṁíy", and other Salishan languages have similar pairs.