Mourning Dove, Coyote Stories

Lori Muntz (Iowa Wesleyan College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1933

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

In contrast to the overtly political and melodramatic narratives of Cogewea, in Coyote Stories Mourning Dove collected a set of stories from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. A third person joined the collaboration she had with McWhorter; Heister Dean Guie was a journalist who helped edit and promote the collection, as well as illustrate it. Coyote Stories contains 27 stories, with titles such as “The Spirit Chief Names The Animal People”, “How Turtle Got His Tail”, and “Why Spider Has Such Long Legs”, as well as a preface by Mourning Dove. These cosmological stories explain the way in which the natural and human worlds interact, and the reasons why things are as they exist; moreover,…

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Citation: Muntz, Lori. "Coyote Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 March 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25854, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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