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| Other authors / contributors: | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971, interviewer.
Angulo, Jaime de, interviewer.
Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972, interviewer.
Zenk, Henry Benjamin, 1944- translator, writer of introduction.
Schrock, Jedd, translator.
Beckham, Stephen Dow, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN: | 0870718843
9780870718847
9780870718830
0870718835
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
Text in the English and in Tualatin Northern Kalapuya languages.
Description based on print version record; title from digital title page (viewed April 4, 2023).
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| Summary: | 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 1957, 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 unlit 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kenoyer, Louis. My Life, by Louis Kenoyer : Reminiscences of a Grand Ronde Reservation Childhood. Corvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, ©2017 9780870718830
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