She's Tricky Like Coyote Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman

"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 wester Oregon. As a child, she absorbed the culture of her maternal ancestors, mastering the traditional arts of basketmaking and storytelling. She learned English after she was twenty years old; from childhood she was bilingual in Miluk and Hanis, and she lived to become the last person to fluent in Miluk." "In the 1930s, Annie dictated her story, in Miluk Coos, to anthropologist Melville Jacobs, who translated the account into English. Although only a few pages long, the autobiography reveals a bright, outspoken, and independent woman who was raised as a traditional Indian and married five Indian men but whose adult life was spent in the white world. Supplementing the account with anthropologists' field notes, interviews with relatives, and other primary and secondary works, Lionel Youst here provides the first full-length biography of an American Indian linguistic or ethnologic informant from the northwestern states."--BOOK JACKET.Youst, Lionel is the author of 'She's Tricky Like Coyote Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman', published 2005 under ISBN 9780806136936 and ISBN 0806136936.