Coyote Was Going There by Jarold Ramsey

Coyote Was Going There by Jarold Ramsey

The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.

"Folklore of the Northwest Indians has long been the exclusive province of the collectors, restricted to anthropologists and linguistic journals or to monographsFrom such sources Jarold Ramsey has chosen representative myths and tales of the Oregon Indians (Tillamook, Coos, Nez Perce, Klamath, Paiute), offering them to the general public as literature. . . . Folklorists everywhere . . . will find this a valuable collection."

* Publishers Weekly *

"Coyote Was Going There . . . is really loaded with literary and historical treasure, making it one of those few works which can provide us with an option against continued ignorance. The American West will not come of age as a place for indigenous literature until we can count these stories among all the classics of mankind’s expressive output.""

* Western American Literature *

JAROLD RAMSEY was born in central Oregon and grew up on his family's ranch there. He left the ranch to attend college, and became an award-winning essayist and poet, as well as a published playwright and a respected authority on traditional American Indian literature. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Rochester and the author of several books. In 2017, he received the Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award for lifetime achievement from Literary Arts. He lives in Madras, Oregon.

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ISBN 13	9780295957319
ISBN 10	029595731X
Title	Coyote Was Going There
Author	Jarold Ramsey
Series	Coyote Was Going There
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Washington Press
Year published	1980-03-01
Number of pages	336
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