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My Life, by Louis Kenoyer Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood / by Louis Kenoyer ; reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood ; a text in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya ; dictated to Melville Jacobs, Jaime de Angulo, and L.S. Freeland ; introduction and commentaries by Henry Zenk ; translation by Jedd Schrock and Henry Zenk ; foreword by Stephen Dow Beckham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937, author.
- Language:
- English
- North American Indian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937--Childhood and youth.
- Kalapuya language--Texts.
- Kalapuya language.
- Kalapuya Indians--Oregon--History.
- Kalapuya Indians.
- Kalapuya Indians--Oregon--Social life and customs.
- Kalapuya Indians--Oregon--Biography.
- Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oregon State University Press, 2017. Corvallis, OR :
- Language Note:
- Text in the English and in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages.
- Summary:
- Louis Kenoyer, born in 1868 at Grand Ronde reservation, Oregon, was the last known native speaker of Tualatin Northern Kalapuya.His autobiographical narrative was recorded in 1928 and 1936 and is archived in the Special Collections of the University of Washington Library.
- Contents:
- The story of my life, by Louis Kenoyer
- The Grand Ronde tribes
- Life on the nineteenth-century reservation
- Louis Kenoyer in later life
- Notes to introduction
- Text presentation and translation
- Louis Kenoyer's narrative as oral literature
- Parsing Kenoyer's narrative
- The Tualatin text
- Notes to text presentation and translation
- The narrative
- Three chiefs of the bygone era
- Kenoyer's reminiscences, as told in 1928
- Daily life on the farm
- Hunting Mt. Hebo with Yamhill Joe
- More daily life on the farm; a hop-picking excursion
- Horse-racing
- Working and going to church
- Daily life in the sisters' school
- Serving Mass for Fr. Croquet
- More daily life in the sisters' school
- A tale of two doctoring traditions
- Another off-reservation work-trip
- Fourth of July festivities
- Commentary and textual notes.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Oregon."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87071-884-3
- OCLC:
- 1006413477
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