Contents
Foreword by Stephen Dow Beckham
Acknowledgments
The Story of My Life, by Louis Kenoyer
The Grand Ronde Tribes
Life on the Nineteenth-Century Reservation
Louis Kenoyer in Later Life
Notes and Commentary
Louis Kenoyer’s Narrative as Oral Literature
Parsing Kenoyer’s Narrative
The Tualatin Text
Notes and Commentary
The Narrative
1. Three Chiefs of the Bygone Era
2. Kenoyer’s Reminiscences, as Told in 1928
3. Daily Life on the Farm
4. Hunting Mt. Hebo with Yamhill Joe
5. More Daily Life on the Farm; a Hop-Picking Excursion
6. Horse-Racing
7. Working and Going to Church
8. Daily Life in the Sisters’ School
9. Serving Mass for Fr. Croquet
10. More Daily Life in the Sisters’ School
11. A Tale of Two Doctoring Traditions
12. Another Off-Reservation Work Trip
13. Fourth of July Festivities
Notes and Commentary
References
Index