Kootenai Why Stories

by Frank Bird Linderman

While trapping in Montana during the 1880s, young Frank B. Linderman befriended the Kootenai Indians. At their campfires he heard about Skinkoots the coyote, Co-pee the owl, Frog Chief, and the other animal people. The telling impressed him, and in 1926 he was able, from long familiarity, to translate the tales for Kootenai Why Stories. Old-Man appears as the flawed undergod known by different names to other tribes, a figure provoking more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803279728
• ISBN13: 9780803279728
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"