My life : reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood ; a text in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya / by Louis Kenoyer ; dicatated to Melville Jacobs, Jamie de Angulo, and L.S. Freeland ; introduction and commentaries by Henry Zenk ; translation by Jedd Schrock and Henry Zenk ; foreword by Stephen Dow Beckham

Author: Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937
Additional Titles: Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood
Published: Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date: ©2017
Physical Description: ix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Additional Creators: Schrock, Jedd and Zenk, Henry Benjamin, 1944-

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Language Note

Text in the English and in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages ; English text of the narrative translated from the 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.

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ISBN

9780870718830 paperback ; alkaline paper
0870718835 paperback ; alkaline paper

Note

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

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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