Born in 1920, Dolby Bevan Turner spent teenage years at Green Point on Cowichan Bay where she befriended members of the Khenipsen. In her 80s she profiled some of the elders she knew and relayed some of their stories in When the Rains Came: And Other Legends of the Salish People (Orca, 1992), illustrated by Delmar Johnnie Seletze, a member of the Khenipsen band. Born in 1946, he grew up in Duncan and studied art at Peninsula College of Art in Los Angeles and at Malaspina College.

BOOKS:

When the Rains Came: And Other Legends of the Salish People (Orca, 1992)

[BCBW 2004]