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Coyote stories / by Mourning Dove (Humishuma) ; edited and illustrated by Heister Dean Guie with notes by L.V. McWhorter (Old Wolf) and a foreword by Chief Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mourning Dove, 1888-1936, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Okanagan Indians--Folklore.
- Okanagan Indians.
- Coyote (Mythological character).
- Coyote.
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Coyote (Mythological character)--Juvenile literature.
- Okanagan Indians--Legends--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Folklore.
- Washington (State).
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Literature.
- Folklore.
- Juvenile works.
- Legends.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Peltier, Jerome (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 228, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Caldwell, Idaho : Printed and bound in the United States of America by The Caxton Printers, Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- Caldwell, Idaho : The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1933.
- Summary:
- "Mourning Dove, whose Indian name is Humishuma, an Okanogan Indian woman, has written these 27 stories as she heard them from the story tellers of her tribe on the Colville reservation in northeastern Washington. In most of them the central character is Coyote. They concern his adventures among the Animal People, who were before the Real People in the Pacific northwest. Coyote was an important character because he was put to work by the spirit chief to make the "world a good place in which to live" and to prepare it for the coming of the tribes"--Review in Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 24, 1933.
- Contents:
- The Spirit Chief names the Animal People
- Fox and Coyote and Whale
- Coyote fights some monsters
- Chipmunk and Owl-Woman
- Coyote and the buffalo
- Why the flint-rock cannot fight back
- How Turtle got his name
- Why Skunk's tail is black and white
- Rattlesnake and Salmon
- Coyote meets Wind and some others
- Why Gartersnake wears a green blanket
- Coyote quarrels with Mole
- How Coyote happened to make black moss food
- Why Spider has such long legs
- Why Badger is so humble
- Coyote juggles his eyes
- Why Marten's face is wrinkled
- Crawfish and Grizzly Bear
- Coyote and Wood-Tick
- Why mosquitoes bite people
- The gods of the Sun and the Moon
- Porcupine learns the Sun Dance
- En-Am-Tues
- The WIshing Stone
- Chickadee makes a Shoo'-mesh Bow
- Coyote and Chickadee
- The Arrow Trail
- Coyote imitates Bear and Kingfisher.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining-papers.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has on half-title leaf dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("For Jerome Peltier. Lucullus V. McWorther. Hunting Moon 29 Suns, 1943 Snows.") recording the gift of this volume from Lucullus Virgil McWhorter to Jerome Peltier in 1943.
- Cited in:
- Schimmel, C.F. OK, I’ll do it myself (second edition, revised), 5
- OCLC:
- 3165893
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