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She's Tricky Like Coyote : Annie Miner title: Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman Civilization of the American Indian Series author: Youst, Lionel. publisher: University of Oklahoma Press isbn10 | asin: 0806129727 print isbn13: 9780806129723 ebook isbn13: 9780585124674 language: English Peterson, Annie Miner,--1860-1939, Coquille women--Biography, Linguistic informants--Oregon--Coos Bay--Biography, Coquille language--Oregon--Coos Bay-- subject History, Anthropological linguistics-- Oregon--Coos Bay--History, Coos Bay (Or.)--Biography. publication date: 1997 lcc: E99.C8742P479 1997eb ddc: 979.5/230049741 Peterson, Annie Miner,--1860-1939, Coquille women--Biography, Linguistic informants--Oregon--Coos Bay--Biography, subject: Coquille language--Oregon--Coos Bay-- History, Anthropological linguistics-- Oregon--Coos Bay--History, Coos Bay (Or.)--Biography. Page i Annie wearing part of her collection of Native American clothing items, ca. 1910. Photo courtesy Esther Stutzman. She's Tricky Like Coyote Page ii Four-generation photo: Annie Miner Peterson (standing, right), her daughter, Nellie Aasen (seated), her granddaughter, Iola Edmonds (standing left), and her great-granddaugher, Urla (in Nellie's lap) in 1929. Photo courtesy Iola Larson. Page iii She's Tricky Like Coyote Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman by Lionel Youst The Civilization of the American Indian Series University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London Page iv "The Trickster Person Who Made the Country," a Coos myth dictated in Muluk by Annie Miller Peterson to Melville Jacobs in 1922 and published in Coos Myth Texts by the University of Washington (1940), is reprinted in its English version with grateful acknowledgment to the University of Washington Press. All maps are by Lionel Youst. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Youst, Lionel, 1934 She's tricky like coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian woman / by Lionel Youst. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-2972-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Peterson, Annie Miner, 18601939. 2. Coquille women Biography. 3. Linguistic informantsOregonCoos BayBiography. 4. Coquille languageOregonCoos BayHistory. 5. Anthropo- logical linguisticsOregonCoos BayHistory. 6. Coos Bay (Or.) Biography. I. Title. E99.C8742P479 1997 979.5'23004974l-dc21 [B] 97-12529 CIP Text design by Deborah Hackworth. Front-matter design by Alicia Hembekides. Text set in Caslon 540 with Antique Olive display. She's Tricky Like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman is Volume 224 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright © 1997 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1. Contact 7 2. The War 21 3. Annie's First Years 37 4. Childhood 49 5. Yachats 67 6. Womanhood 85 7. Return to Coos Bay 107 8. Big Creek 125 9. Portland 147 10. The 1931 Court of Claims 163 11. The Anthropologists 175 12. The Last Years 195 Page viii Appendix 1. "The Trickster Person Who Made the Country" 205 2. Kinship Charts 257 3. Published Works Incorporating English Versions of 265 Texts from the Oregon Coast Penutian Languages Notes 271 Bibliography 285 Index 295

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She’s Tricky Like Coyote is the story of Annie Miner Peterson, who was born in an Indian village on a tidal slough along the southern Oregon Coast in 1860.Annie lived a full and fascinating seventy-nine years. In the 1930s, she dictated her story, in Miluk Coos, to anthropologist Melville Jacobs,
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