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Bibliography of Chinookan Oral Literature
The Stories, Myths and Texts of the Clatsop, Kathlamet and Clackamas Peoples of the Lower Columbia River, Oregon and Washington
2010 Don Macnaughtan
Ethnographic Bibliographies no. 5
Introduction
Oregon Athapaskan Bibliography
Indian Languages of Western Oregon
This bibliography lists the known published literature of the Chinookan peoples of the Lower Columbia River. The Chinook were renowned traders and fishermen who lived in dense settlements along the lower reaches of the Columbia River, from the Gorge of the Cascade Mountains westward to the Pacific. The Chinook were amongst the wealthiest people in the Pacific Northwest, by virtue of their control of trade routes and prized fishing locations along the river. Their oral literature was equally rich, and their mythical pantheon was populated by powerful spirit and animal figures, ghosts, and ancestors.
Victoria Howard
The Lower Columbia Chinookan Tribes
The Chinookans who lived along the Lower Columbia River were:
the tlacep or Clatsop people at the mouth of the River the Shoalwater Chinook around Willapa Bay the waqaiqam or Wahkiakum on the lower north bank of the river the galamat or Kathlamet people on the lower south bank of the river the malnumax or Multnomah people in Sauvie Island and the Portland Basin the gitlakimas or Clackamas people along the Clackamas and Sandy RiversBibliography
1. "The Animal People Hold a Medicine Chant (Chinook)." Nihancan's Feast of Beaver: Animal Tales of the North American Indians. Ed. Edward Lavitt and Robert E. McDowell. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1990. Print.
2. "Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors (Clackamas Chinook)." Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations. Ed. Karl Kroeber. Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1981. Print.
3. "Blue Jay Visits Ghost Town (Chinook)." American Indian Myths and Legends. Ed. Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. New York: Pantheon, 1984. Print.
4. "Bluejay Visits the Ghosts (Clatsop Chinook)." The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Stories. Ed. George B. Grinnell. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1982. Print.
5. "Bluejay the Imitator (Clatsop Chinook)." The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Stories. Ed. George B. Grinnell. Ed. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1982. Print.
6. Boas, Franz. "Chinook Songs." Journal of American Folklore 1 (1888): 220-226. Print.
7. Boas, Franz. "Kathlamet Texts." A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911. Ed. George W. Stocking. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1974. 116-122. Print.
8. Boas, Franz. Chinook Texts. Washington: GPO, 1894. 278p. Print.
9. Boas, Franz. Kathlamet Texts. Washington: GPO, 1901. 261p. Print.
10. Bullock, Dave. "A Chinook Indian Tale." Marion Carter Storytelling Festival. Salt Lake City Public Library, 1988. 120 min. Videocassette.
11. "Chinook Ghosts." Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1910. Print.
12. "Coyote and the Cedar Tree (Clackamas Chinook)." Northwest Passages: A Literary Anthology of the Pacific Northwest. Ed. Bruce Barcott. Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1994. Print.
13. Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country. Ed. Jarold W. Ramsey. Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1977. 295p. Print.
14. "The First European Ship Comes To Clatsop Country." Varieties of Hope: An Anthology of Oregon Prose. Ed. Gordon B. Dodds. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 1993. Print.
15. "The Gift of the Totems (Kathlamet Chinook)." American Indian Tales and Legends. Ed. Vladimir Hulpach. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965. Print.
16. "Grizzly Woman Began to Kill People (Clackamas Chinook)." Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations. Ed. Karl Kroeber. Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1981. Print.
17. Howard, Victoria. "Awl and Her Son's Son." Studies in American Indian Literatures 3.1 (1991): 8-12. Print.
18. Howard, Victoria. "Five Short Narratives." Alcheringa 3 (1977): 2-7. Print.
19. Howard, Victoria. "Grizzly Woman Killed People." Studies in American Indian Literatures 3.1 (1991): 13-18. Print.
20. Howard, Victoria. Moons: Four Short Verses in Clackamas and English. Portland: Irish Setter, nd. Print.
21. Hymes, Dell H. "A Pattern of Verbal Irony in Chinookan." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 65 (1987): 97-110. Print.
22. Hymes, Dell H. "A Theory of Irony and a Chinookan Pattern of Verbal Exchange." The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected Papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference. Ed. Jef Verschueren. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1987. 293-338. Print.
23. Hymes, Dell H. "Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook." Journal of American Folklore 72 (1959): 139-145. Rpt. in 'In Vain I Tried to Tell You': Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. 263-273. Print.
24. Hymes, Dell H. "Poetic Structure of a Chinook Text." Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett. Ed. Frederick B. Agard et al. Leiden, Amsterdam: E. J. Brill, 1983. 507-525. Print.
25. Hymes, Dell H. "Reading Clackamas Texts." Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations. Ed. Karl Kroeber. Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1981. 117-159. Rpt. in 'In Vain I Tried to Tell You': Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. 342-381. Print.
26. Hymes, Dell H. "Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived Here." Hermes July 1991: 132-133. Print.
27. Hymes, Dell H. "The Earliest Clackamas Text." International Journal of American Linguistics 50 (1984): 358-383. Print.
28. Hymes, Dell H. "The 'Wife' Who 'Goes Out' Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth." Social Science Information 7.3 (1968): 173-199. Rpt. in 'In Vain I Tried to Tell You': Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. 274-308. Print.
29. Hymes, Dell H. "Verse Analysis of a Kathlamet Chinook Text Preserved by Franz Boas: Charles Cultee's 'Southwest Wind's Myth'." Aims and Prospects of Semiotics: Essays in Honor of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Ed. Herman Parret and Hans George Ruprecht. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins, 1985. 953-978. Print.
30. Hymes, Dell H. "Victoria Howard's Gitskux and His Older Brother: A Clackamas Chinook Myth." Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature. Ed. Brian Swann. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 129-170. Print.
31. Jacobs, Melville. "Humor and Social Structure in an Oral Literature." Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin. Ed. Stanley Diamond. New York: Columbia UP, 1960. 181-189. Print.
32. Jacobs, Melville. "Psychological Inferences from a Chinook Myth." Journal of American Folklore 65 (1952): 121-137. Print.
33. Jacobs, Melville. Clackamas Chinook Texts. Bloomington: U of Indiana, 1959. 663p. Print.
34. Jacobs, Melville. The Content and Style of an Oral Literature: Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1959. 285p. Print.
35. Jacobs, Melville. The People Are Coming Soon: Analyses of Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales. Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1960. 359p. Print.
36. Martin, Rafe, and David Shannon. The Boy Who Lived with the Seals. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. 32p. Print.
37. Milner, Clyde A., ed. "A Chinook Story, Recorded in 1894." Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1989. 37-38. Print.
38. Nichols, William. "Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors: Comic Reconciliation in a Clackamas Chinook Myth." Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature. Ed. Brian Swann. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983. 301-308. Print.
39. "Origin of the Tribes (Chinook)." Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1910. Print.
40. "The Punishment of the Stingy (Clatsop Chinook)." The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Stories. Ed. George B. Grinnell. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1982. Print.
41. Ramsey, Jarold W. "The Wife Who Goes Out Like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives." PMLA 92 (1977): 9-18. Rpt. in Folk Groups and Folklore Genres: A Reader. Ed. Elliott Oring. Logan: Utah State UP, 1989. 209-223. Print.
42. Scharbach, Alexander. "Aspects of Existentialism in Clackamas Chinook Myths." Journal of American Folklore 75 (1962): 15-22. Print.
43. Seaburg, William R., and Pamela T. Amoss, eds. Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors: Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 2000. 310p. Print.
44. "Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There (Clackamas Chinook)." Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Ed. Brian Swann. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Print.
45. Silverstein, Michael. "The Culture of Language in Chinookan Narrative Texts: Or, on Saying That in Chinook." Grammar Inside and Outside the Clause: Some Approaches to Theory from the Field. Ed. Johanna Nichols and Anthony C. Woodbury. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. 132-171. Print.
46. "The Sun's Myth (Kathlamet Chinook)." The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art. Ed. W. S. Penn. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Print.
47. "Tallapus and the Cedar (Clatsop)." Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1910. Print.
48. "The Sun's Myth (Kathlamet Chinook)." Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Ed. Brian Swann. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Print.
49. "The Tahmanous Man (Chinook)." Native Americans of the Pacific Coast. Ed. Vinson Brown. Happy Camp: Naturegraph, 1985. Print.
50. Thompson, Craig B. "Gender Representation in Two Clackamas Myths." Studies in American Indian Literatures 3.1 (1991):19-39. Print.
51. "Tongue (Clackamas Chinook)." The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art. Ed. W. S. Penn. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Print.
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