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"Ruby and Brown have traced the destruction of a native race and fading fur trade in a book that is well organized and beautifully printed....[They] are to be commended for encompassing in one volume for the general reader the turbulent and tragic history of the Northwest Coast fur trade and the Chinook Indians. Historians will appreciate the extensive bibliography."-- Oregon Historical Quarterly ... Read more

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This CD contains 53 Rare and Fascinating Historic books detailing Native American Religions and Mythologies.Some of the titles in the CD include: Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson [1929]; The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman [1911]; Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin [1916]; Eskimo Folk-tales collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster [1921]; Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche [1889]; The Iroquois Book of Rites by H.E. Hale [1883]; Haida Songs by John R. Swanton. [1912]; Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians by Amy Lowell [1920]; Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee by James Mooney [1891]; Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians by Aileen O'Bryan; Truth of a Hopi by Edmund Nequatewa, [1936]; Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pima) by J. William Lloyd [1911] and many others.This CD is a collection of PDF files with a navigation system that utilizes your web browser on your computer. It will run on Windows and Macintosh platforms. ... Read more

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Examines the history, culture, changing fortunes, and current situation of the Chinook Indians. ... Read more

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George Gibbs was an American geologist and ethnologist who contributed to the study of the languages of indigenous peoples in Washington Territory. Known for his expertise on Native American customs and languages, Gibbs participated in numerous treaty negotiations between the U.S. government and the native tribes. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Reprint of the English translation of ancient Chinook (Pacific Northwest Native Americans) texts, with myths and folklore including:1. CikLa2. Okulâ'm3. AnêktcXô'lEmiX4. The Salmon5. Raven and Gull6. Coyote7. The Crane8. Ênts!X9. The Crow10. Câ'xaL11. Stikua'12. The Skunk13. Robin and Blue-Jay18. Blue-Jay and Iô'i15. Blue-Jay and Iô'i16. Blue-Jay and Iô'i17. Ckulkulô'L18. The PantherBeliefs, Customs, and TalesThe Soul and the ShamansHow Cultee's Grandfather Acquired a Guardian Spirit The Four CousinsThe GiLâ'unaLXThe Elk HunterPregnancy and BirthPubertyMarriageDeathWhalingElk HuntingThe PotlatchWarHistorical TalesWar Between Quileute and ClatsopThe First Ship Seen by the Clatsop ... Read more

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Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Chinook people, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, history, and interaction with the United States government. ... Read more

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A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (aka Wawa) arose at the interface of "Indian" and "White" societies in the Pacific Northwest. Wawa's sources lie first in the language of the Chinookans who lived along the lower Columbia River, but also with the Nootkans of the outer coast of Vancouver Island. With the arrival of the fur trade, the French of the engages or voyageurs provided additional vocabulary and a set of viable cultural practices, a key element of which was marital bonding with Indian and metisse women. These women and their children were the first fluent speakers of Wawa.

After several decades of contact, ensuing epidemics brought demographic collapse to the Chinookans. Within another decade the region was radically transformed by the Oregon Trail. Wawa had acquired its present shape, but lost its homeland. It became a diaspora language in which many communities seek some trace of their past. A previously unpublished glossary of Wawa circa 1825 is included as an appendix to this volume.

Making Wawa will attract the attention of linguists, especially those involved in contact linguistics and the languages of the Pacific Northwest. It will also interest historians and other scholars interested in Native and gender studies, cross-cultural conflict, and transculturation. ... Read more

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This highly illustrated, full-color series presents each tribe within the context of its native lands. Color maps, population graphs, and other graphics present vital statistics in an appealing and accessible visual format. History, European contact, native religious beliefs, language, government, art, culture, customs, and daily life are covered, as well as a final section that focuses on modern identity and contemporary experience. ... Read more

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Chinook Nation - Tribes of Native American
The book is short and concise in its description of the Chinook Nation, giving a quick, but very brief glimpse of the peoples who populated the area of the Columbia River in Oregon/Washington prior to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.It is written in a style adequate for people from 10 to 18 years of age and/or for adults who are interested in only a limited overview of the subject matter. ... Read more

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"Nearly seventy-five years of my lifetime have come and gone since hearing of the sparse historical events from the old-timers," American Indian elder George Aguilar tells us. "It’s my turn now." When the River Ran Wild! is Aguilar's recounting of events he heard about while watching his grandmother make moccasins by the light of a coal-oil lamp and while strapped to the back of his aunt's horse on the way to the huckleberry grounds. He learned them at Coyote's Fishing Place, where his uncles built scaffolds and taught him how to use traditional technologies to catch salmon as they made their seasonal runs up the river.

In this remarkable personal memoir and tribal history, we learn about Aguilar's people, the Kiksht-speaking Eastern Chinookans, who lived and worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds of the Columbia River at Five Mile Rapids.

When the River Ran Wild! is the story of a culture and a community that has undergone tremendous change since 1805, when the River People encountered Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they traveled down the Columbia River on their way to the Pacific Ocean. To find the stories of that change, Aguilar draws on the journals and diaries of early White missionaries and settlers, such as Gabriel Franchere, Rev. Henry Perkins of Wascopum Mission, and A. B. Meacham. He found other stories in anthropological papers and historical studies that recorded the voices of people who practiced and remembered ceremonies and traditions that were lost or changed during the difficult years of removal to the Warm Springs Reservation in north-central Oregon. He heard yet others from tribal elders who have kept the history and stories of the River People in their memories.

When the River Ran Wild! is the history of names and naming, of deep family connections, and of traditional customs. It is a descriptive catalogue of the plants the River People used for sustenance and medical purposes, and it is a detailed guide on how to pack out an elk and how to tan a hide. Aguilar retells the stories and myths of the river, the stories that "are now infrequent and told from books in the English language," the stories whose "body language, animal mimicry, and facial expressions are gone."

Aguilar has written this book to help us know what the River People have lost on the Columbia River over the decades, but he also gives testimony to what has been conserved and enlivened by a people who love the land and who honor tradition and those who came before. He takes us, perhaps better than anyone else can, back to a time when the river ran wild. ... Read more

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Overpriced and incomplete
One would think that a book that continuously refers to geographic features and locations, archaic place names, native villages and encampments, and river miles above the mouths of the Columbia and Willamette rivers would include a map. Not so with this book. I found it extremely frustrating that this book did not include even one useful map. This would seem to be a monumental oversight by the author or editors, since it significantly detracts from the clarity and accessibility of the subject matter. I finally attempted to annotate several USGS quad maps so that I could get my bearings (This made it somewhat difficult to read the book on the bus or the train). I grew up in the area Rubin writes about, and even so, I definitely could have used a map. Were the publishers trying to save money? Save yours, and check the book out from the library if you are interested (luckily, that's what I did). Oh, and get a good map while you're at it.

NAKED AGAINST THE RAIN:THE PEOPLE OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA, 1
Rick Rubin's NAKED AGAINST THE RAIN:THE PEOPLE OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA, 1770-1830, is a fascinating look at the last days of the many tribes whichpopulated the lower Columbia river.The collision of culture and disease,brought to the tribes by the "floats ashore", whites,began thedemise of these remarkable people and their unique way of life.Daily lifeis beautifully portrayed by Rubin as he details the people and theirrelationship with the land they occupied for many thousands of years. Surviving people are to be found on the reservations of the Grand Ronde,Warm Springs and Siuslaw.Many languages and many tribes share thelanguage that has come to be known as Chinook Jargon; a language developedto accomodate trade amongst the people of various tribes.Rubin has done amagnificent job of chronicaling the lifestyle of these fascinating people. Diet, clothing, cultural norms and daily life are detailed in this veryfine synthesis of what is known about the people of the Columbia and whatis conjectured.Rubin has honorably brought to life a people who areintelligent, humorous and enormously resourcful.This is an excellentbook, written in a manner that is accessible to all.I highly recommendMr. Rubin's very fine book. ... Read more

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The Chinook tribes inhabited the salmon-rich lower Columbia river area in the Northwest culture region, in what is now upper Oregon and lower Washington state. As is evident from these texts, fishing was at the center of their culture, and they were also avid traders and gamblers. A creole based on their language and several European languages, the 'Chinook Jargon', was widely used as a trade language in the Northwest. The Chinook practised the 'Potlatch'--the charateristic Northwestern ceremony in which wealth was ritually redistributed.

These unfiltered stories, translated with great care by Franz Boas, one of the founders of modern Anthropology, reflect a rich storytelling tradition which shows a deep understanding of the range of human emotions. The central character in many of these is 'Blue-Jay', a rather dim but heroic figure who, in one memorable tale visits the land of the dead, in a story worthy of the Twilight Zone. ... Read more

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I only got half the book!
I was sorely disappointed upon getting my copy of this book to find that it did not contain the original Chinook-language texts. (I have been a student of the upper Chinookan dialects for nearly twenty years and had decided to begin studying Shoalwater and Clatsop as well.)

How dare the publisher claim that this is a reprinting of Boas's original, when half the book is missing? Only students of ethnography and native folklore will find this book useful.

As for me, I have contacted the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service for a full copy of the original.

Free English Translations Only...
For the price the quality of the text, the binding and printing, is good. However, buyers should be aware that this edition does not follow pagination of original and does not include the Chinook language or interlineal transcriptions. It only contains the free English translations of the texts. ... Read more

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Some years ago the Smithsonian Institution printed a small vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, furnished by Dr. B.R. Mitchell, of the U.S. Navy, and prepared, as we afterwards learned, by Mr. Lionnet, a Catholic priest, for his own use while studying the language at Chinook Point. It was submitted by the Institution, for revision and preparation for the press, to the late Professor W.W. Turner. Although it received the critical examination of that distinguished philologist, and was of use in directing attention to the language, it was deficient in the number of words in use, contained many which did not properly belong to the Jargon, and did not give the sources from which the words were derived.

Mr. Hale had previously given a vocabulary and account of this Jargon in his "Ethnography of the United States Exploring Expedition," which was noticed by Mr. Gallatin in the Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. ii. He, however, fell into some errors in his derivation of the words, chiefly from ignoring the Chihalis element of the Jargon, and the number of words given by him amounted only to about two hundred and fifty.

A copy of Mr. Lionnet's vocabulary having been sent to me, with a request to make such corrections as it might require, I concluded not merely to collate the words contained in this and other printed and manuscript vocabularies, but to ascertain, so far as possible, the languages which had contributed to it, with the original Indian words. This had become the more important, as its extended use by different tribes had led to ethnological errors in the classing together of essentially distinct families. Dr. Scouler, whose vocabularies were among the earliest bases of comparison of the languages of the northwest coast, assumed a number of words, which he found indiscriminately employed by the Nootkans of Vancouver Island, the Chinooks of the Columbia, and the intermediate tribes, to belong alike to their several languages, and exhibit analogies between them accordingly.[A] On this idea, among other points of fancied resemblance, he founded his family of Nootka-Columbians,--one which has been adopted by Drs. Pritchard and Latham, and has caused very great misconception. Not only are those languages entirely distinct, but the Nootkans differ greatly in physical and mental characteristics from the latter. The analogies between the Chinook and the other native contributors to the Jargon are given hereafter.

[Footnote A: Journal Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. xi., 1841.]

The origin of this Jargon, a conventional language similar to the Lingua Franca of the Mediterranean, the Negro-English-Dutch of Surinam, the Pigeon English of China, and several other mixed tongues, dates back to the fur droguers of the last century. Those mariners whose enterprise in the fifteen years preceding 1800, explored the intricacies of the northwest coast of America, picked up at their general rendezvous, Nootka Sound, various native words useful in barter, and thence transplanted them, with additions from the English, to the shores of Oregon. Even before their day, the coasting trade and warlike expeditions of the northern tribes, themselves a sea-faring race, had opened up a partial understanding of each other's speech; for when, in 1792, Vancouver's officers visited Gray's Harbor, they found that the natives, though speaking a different language, understood many words of the Nootka.


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