By Lionel Youst
She’s difficult Like Coyote is the tale of Annie Miner Peterson, who was once born in an Indian village on a tidal slough alongside the southern Oregon Coast in 1860.
Annie lived a whole and interesting seventy-nine years. within the Nineteen Thirties, she dictated her tale, in Miluk Coos, to anthropologist Melville Jacobs, who translated the account into English. even if just a couple of pages lengthy, the autobiography unearths a vibrant, outspoken, and self sustaining lady who was once raised as a standard Indian and married 5 Indian males yet whose grownup existence used to be spent within the white global. Supplementing the account with anthropologists’ box notes, interviews with relations, and different basic and secondary works, Lionel Youst the following offers the 1st full-length biography of an American Indian linguistic or ethnologic informant from the northwestern states.
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