My life reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation childhood ; a text in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya


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My Life, by Louis Kenoyer was dictated in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya by Louis Kenoyer, the last known speaker of that language. A rare, first-person narrative by a Native American describing life on an Oregon reservation, Kenoyer's account tells the story of his childhood on the late-nineteenth century Grand Ronde Reservation. It includes compelling descriptions of daily life in the reservation community, capturing the intermingling of new Euro-American ways with persisting indigenous beliefs and practices. The first quarter of the narrative was dictated to Jaime de Angulo and L. S. Freeland in 1928, the remainder to Melville Jacobs in 1936. Louis Kenoyer died in 1937, before Jacobs could complete a translation with him. Jacobs subsequently prepared a transcript from the translated portions of the text, but the last quarter of the complete narrative remained untranslated until now. Henry Zenk and Jedd Schrock drew on the previously translated portions of the narrative, as well as on available supporting linguistic, ethnographic, and historical documentation, to complete the work for this volume. The result is a complete bilingual English-Tualatin text, accompanied by extensive notes and commentary providing historical and ethnographic context. Louis Kenoyer (baχawádas) was born in 1868 at Grand Ronde Reservation, Oregon. He died in 1937 at Yakama Reservation, Washington.

Author(s): Louis Kenoyer , Jedd Schrock (Translator), Henry Benjamin Zenk (Translator)
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2017
Physical Description: ix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Genre: Biographies
Notes:

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

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

Subjects:

Biographies, Childhood and youth of a person, Grand Ronde Indian Reservation (Or.), History, Kalapuya Indians, Kalapuya Indians Oregon Biography, Kalapuya Indians Oregon History, Kalapuya Indians Oregon Social life and customs, Kalapuya Oregon Biographies, Kalapuya Oregon Histoire, Kalapuya Oregon Mœurs et coutumes, Kalapuya language, Kalapuya lang

 

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