Research Catalog

Title

Coyote tales of the Montana Salish. An exhibition organized by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior. By Harriet Miller and Elizabeth Harrison, from tales narrated by Pierre Pichette. Illustrations by Frederick E. Roullier. With an introduction by Ramon Gonyea.

Author

Miller, Harriet, 1919-

Publication

[Bozeman, Mont.] U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board [1974]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harrison, Elizabeth, 1926-
• Pichette, Pierre, 1877-1955.
• Roullier, Frederick Ernest, 1951-
• Roullier, Frederick E. (Frederick Ernest), 1951-
• United States. Indian Arts and Crafts Board.

Description

79 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Summary

A series of tales narrated by Pierre Pichette and illustrated by Fred E. Roullier, Flathead artist from Ronan, Montana. Includes the Ram's Horn Tree legend.

Subject

• Salish Indians > Legends
• Salish Indians > Folklore
• Legends > Montana

Genre/Form

Folklore

Note

• "Released through the Museum of the Plains Indian and Crafts Center, Browning, Montana."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Coyote gets his orders from He-who-sits-on-the-top. -- 2. Coyote stocks the streams with Salmon. -- 3. Coyote kills the dragon of the valley. -- 4. How the Nighthawks got their markings. -- 5. Coyote makes a feast of bitterroots. -- 6. Coyote makes a medicine spring. -- 7. Coyote shows the use of weapons. -- 8. Coyote tries to become Chief of the Grizzly Bears. -- 9. How the Eagle became Chief of the Feathered Tribe. -- 10. Coyote's little brother, Cricket, kills a grizzly bear. -- 11. Coyote is caught at mischief. -- 12. Coyote outwits the mountain ram. -- 13. Coyote's winter medicine dance.

OCLC

• 1072667
• SCSB-10259457

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library