LCC Research Guides: Kalapuya: Native Americans of the Willamette Valley, Oregon: Oral Literature

Kalapuya Stories and Myths

"Coyote Gambles (Kalapuya)." Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America. Ed. Barry H. Lopez. New York: Avon, 1977. Print.
"Coyote Takes Water from the Frog People (Kalapuya)." American Indian Myths and Legends. Ed. Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. New York: Pantheon, 1984. Print.
"Coyote Takes Water from the Frog People (Kalapuya)." Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America. Ed. Barry H. Lopez. New York: Avon, 1977. Print.
Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country. Ed. Jarold W. Ramsey. Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1977. Print.
"Coyote, Master of Death, True to Life (Kalapuya)." Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. Ed. Brian Swann. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. Print.
Jacobs, Melville. Kalapuya Texts: Part II, Santiam Kalapuya Myth Texts. Seattle: U of Washington, 1945. Print.
Jones, Suzi, and Jarold Ramsey, eds. The Stories We Tell: An Anthology of Oregon Folk Literature. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 1994. Print.
Rothenberg, Jerome, ed. "A Kalapuya Prophecy." Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico Press, 1991. Print.
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. Print.