Research Catalog

Title

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,

Publication

Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shrock, Jedd,
• Zenk, Henry Benjamin, 1944-

Description

ix, 326 pages; 26 cm

Alternative Title

Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood

Subject

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

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780870718830
• 0870718835

LCCN

^^2017006114

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library