Coyote was going there : Indian literature of the Oregon country / compiled and edited by Jarold Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramsey, Jarold, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Indian--Oregon--Translations into English.

Folk literature, Indian.

Indians of North America--Oregon--Folklore.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Editor's Notes""; ""Mythological Map of Oregon""; ""Part One: Northeastern Oregon""; ""Coyote and the Swallowing Monster (Nez Perce)""; ""Smohalla's Ghost Dance Ceremony (Wanapum)""; ""Dream Prophecy Song (Nez Perce)""; ""How the Cayuse Got Fire (Cayuse)""; ""Cottontail Boy and the Snowshoe Rabbit (Nez Perce)""; ""Cottontail Boy Steals Thunderer's Wife (Nez Perce)""; ""Coyote Becomes a Buffalo (Nez Perce)""; ""Turtle Outswims White Bull (Nez Perce)""; ""Coyote and Fox Marry Husbands (Nez Perce)""; ""The Umatilla Birdman (Umatilla)""

""How Fish-Hawk Raided the sioux (Cayuse)""""Laptissa'n and the Seven-headed Monster (Nez Perce)""; ""Cry-Because-He-Had-no-Wife (Nez Perce)""; ""Red Willow (Nez Perce)""; ""Morning Song (Nez Perce)""; ""How Enga-Gwacu Jim Met the Great Father (Bannock)""; ""Coyote and the Shadow People (Nez Perce)""; ""Chief Joseph Speaks in Washington, D.C. (Nez Perce)""; ""Part Two: The Columbia""; ""Coyote at the Mouth of the Columbia (Wishram)""; ""Coyote Frees the Fish (Wishram)""; ""Coyote and the Mouthless Man (Wishram)""; ""Coyote and the First Pregnacy (Wishram)""

""Coyote's Carelessness (Wasco-Warm Springs)""""Tsagigla'lal (Wishram)""; ""Chief Mark Considers Monogamy, Warm Springs Agency, 1871""; ""A Wasco Woman Decieves her Husband (Wasco)""; ""The Deserted Boy (Wishram)""; ""Little Raccoon and His Grandmother (Wasco-Warm Springs)""; ""Wren Kills Elk (Lower Chinook)""; ""The Elk, the Hunter, and the Greedy Father (Wasco)""; ""The Big-footed Man and His Son (Wasco)""; ""Wishram Canoe Song""; ""The Battle of the Winds (Warm Springs)""; ""The Sun Box (Warm Springs)""; ""The Wishram Calendar""; ""The Girl on the Ice (Wasco)""

""The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals (Wasco)""""A Boy and His Sister Escape an At'at'a'hlia (Wasco)""; ""Arrow-Point Maker and Tobacco-Hunter (Wasco)""; ""Two Brothers Become Sun and Moon (Wasco)""; ""Coyote and Eagle Go to the Land of the Dead (Wishram)""; ""Wishram Song for Gathering Bones for Burial""; ""The ""Stick"" Indians (Warm Springs)""; ""Part Three: The Willamette Valley""; ""Coyote Builds Willamette Falls and the Magic Fish Trap (Clackamas Chinook)""; ""The Skookum's Tongue (Clackamas Chinook)""; ""The Skookum and the Wonderful Boy (Clackamas Chinook)""

""Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors (Clackamas Chinook)""""Seal and her Younger Brother Lived There (Clackamas Chinook)""; ""She Deceived Herself with Milt (Clackamas Chinook)""; ""A Girls' Game (Clackamas Chinook""; ""The Kalapuya Way (Santiam Kalapuya)""; ""The Four Creations (Atfalati Kalapuya)""; ""Kalapuya Ceremonial Song""; ""Amhuluk, the Monster of Wapato Lake (Santiam Kalapuya)""; ""Ptchiza' and the Seven-headed Snake (Mary's River Kalapuya)""; ""Coyote's Swallowing Match with Grizzly Bear (Molale)""; ""The Indians Hear a Treaty Speech in 1855 (Santiam Kalapuya)""

""Jo Hutchins' Speech, 1869 (Santiam Kalapuya)""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: p. 289-295.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295803517

0295803517

9780295741161

0295741163

OCLC:

47008624