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ISBN:

  • 9780870718830
  • 0870718835

Description: ix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Other Title: Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood

Notes:

  • "Published in cooperation with The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Oregon."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
  • Text in the English and in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages.

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.

LCCN: 2017006114

Control Number: 2353460

Publisher: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017.
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