Record details

• ISBN: 9780870718830 (original trade pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0870718835 (original trade pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: ix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
• Publisher: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Published in cooperation with The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Oregon."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

Language Note:

Text in the English and in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages.

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Subject:

Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937 > Childhood and youth.
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > Biography.
Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.)
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > Social life and customs.
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > History.
Kalapuya language > Texts.