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Author Frey, Rodney, 1950-

Title Landscape traveled by coyote and crane : the world of the Schi̲tsuʼumsh : Coeur d'Alene Indians / Rodney Frey in collaboration with the Schi̲tsuʼumsh
Published Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 329 pages) : illustrations
Series McLellan Bks
McLellan Bks
Contents Foreword / Ernie Stensgar -- Since Time Immemorial: Precontact Society -- Winds of Change: Contact History -- Preparing the World -- Receiving the Gifts -- Sharing the Gifts -- It's Home: Conclusion -- Research Considerations -- List of Plants and Animals
Summary Anthropologist Rodney Frey culminates a decade of work with the Schitsu'umsh (the Coeur d'Alene Indians of Idaho) in this portrait of the unique bonds between a people and the landscape of their traditional homeland. The result of an intensive collaboration between investigator and Native people, the book includes many traditional stories that invite the reader's participation in the world of the Schitsu'umsh. The Schitsu'umsh landscape of lake and mountains is described with a richness that emphasises its essential material and spiritual qualities. The historical trauma of the Schitsu'umsh, stemming from their nineteenth-century contacts with Euro-American culture, is given dramatic weight. Nonetheless, examples of adaptation and continuity in traditional cultural expression, rather than destruction and discontinuity, are the most conspicuous features of this vivid ethnographic portrait. Drawing on pivotal oral traditions, Frey mirrors the Schitsu'umsh world view in his organisation and presentation of ethnographic material. He uses first-person accounts by his Native consultants to convey crucial cultural perspectives and practices. Because of its unusual methodology, Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Craneis likely to become a model for future work with Native American peoples, within the Plateau region and beyond
Notes "A McLellan book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-311) and index
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Subject Coeur d'Alene Indians.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Coeur d'Alene Indians
Form Electronic book
Author Coeur D'Alene Tribe of the Coeur D'Alene Reservation, Idaho.
LC no. 2021694673
ISBN 9780295801629
029580162X
0295981628
9780295981628