Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
- ISBN-10
- 0520002431
- ISBN-13
- 9780520002432
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1953
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Ella Elizabeth Clark
Description
A collection of over one hundred tribal tales drawn from government documents, old periodicals and histories, reports of anthropologists and folklorists, and personal interviews with Indians of Washington and Oregon.
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