The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.
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The Definitive Coyote,
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This review is from: Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country (Paperback)
Jarold Ramsey's painstakingly compiled and edited collection of Coyote tales is a remarkable text for both the general reader and for college-level literature and folklore courses. The text is divided into coyote tales collected from the native tribes of six distinct geographic regions within the present-day state of Oregon. The tales are brief and compelling, and each section begins with a scholarly note and reproduced archival photographs and sketches.For folklorists and college profs and students, each tale has its Thompson Folk-Index of Motif Lit. reference categories listed in a considerable Notes section at the end of the text. By virtually every criterion, this is an excellent text.
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This is a well-written book that gives an accurate picture of real American Indian legends, not those that are re-written by white men. I learned of it from a member of the Grande Ronde Tribe and purchased it on his recommendation. I have not been sorry for one minute! I recommend it most highly to anyone who is interested in the legends of the Native Americans.
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THE INDIANS who occupied northeastern Oregon before the whites came mingled freely with their fellow Sahaptians along the Columbia, but "at home" they lived a very different sort of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nez Perce, Grizzly Bear, The Giver, South Wind, Warm Springs, Columbia River, Cottontail Boy, Crater Lake, Gray Wolf, Suzzallo Library, Wild Woman, Double-bladed Knife, Northern Paiutes, Old Thunder, Snowshoe Rabbit, The Dalles, Grand Ronde, Great Spirit Chief, Horned Toad, Oregon City, Black Crow, Malheur Cave, Courtesy of University of Oregon Books, Curtis Courtesy of Photography Collection, Dog River New!
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THE INDIANS who occupied northeastern Oregon before the whites came mingled freely with their fellow Sahaptians along the Columbia, but "at home" they lived a very different sort of life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nez Perce, Grizzly Bear, The Giver, South Wind, Warm Springs, Columbia River, Cottontail Boy, Crater Lake, Gray Wolf, Suzzallo Library, Wild Woman, Double-bladed Knife, Northern Paiutes, Old Thunder, Snowshoe Rabbit, The Dalles, Grand Ronde, Great Spirit Chief, Horned Toad, Oregon City, Black Crow, Malheur Cave, Courtesy of University of Oregon Books, Curtis Courtesy of Photography Collection, Dog River New!
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- The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios by Edward Sheriff Curtis on 6 pages
- Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World) by Mircea Eliade on 6 pages
- Chinook Texts by Franz Boas on 5 pages
- Alsea Texts And Myths (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins) by Leo J. Frachtenberg on 5 pages
- Klamath Ethnography (University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol 30) by Leslie Spier on 4 pages
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- A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History by Peter Nabokov on page 115, and page 135
- Hiking Oregon's History : The Stories Behind Historic Places You Can Walk to See by William L. Sullivan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- West of the Border: Multicultural Literature of Western American Frontier by Noreen Groover Lape in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Native American Storytelling: A Reader of Myths and Legends by Karl Kroeber in Back Matter
- River of the West: A Chronicle of the Columbia by Robert Clark in Back Matter
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