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My life : reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood ; a text in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya  Cover Image Book Book

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.

Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937 (author.). Schrock, Jedd, (translator.). Zenk, Henry Benjamin, 1944- (translator.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780870718830
  • ISBN: 0870718835
  • 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."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references 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 ; English text of the narrative translated from the Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages.
Subject: Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937 > Childhood and youth.
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > Biography.
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > Social life and customs.
Kalapuya Indians > Oregon > History.
Kalapuya language > Texts.
Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.)
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Helix Public Library.

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