Karuk Sentences and Texts
Click on one of the following for sentences or texts related to a given theme:
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| Year | Speaker(s) | Title | Text ID | |
| 1903 | Mrs. Bennett | "Screech Owl and Coyote" | ALK_14-35 | |
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2013 | Charlie Thom, Sr. | Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk | CT-01 |
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2013 | Charlie Thom, Sr. | How Charlie Grew Up | CT-02 |
| 1927 | Margaret Harrie | "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" | DAF_KT-02 | |
| 1927 | Nettie Ruben | "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" | DAF_KT_03 | |
| 1927 | Benonie Harrie | "Coyote Pups" | DAF_KT-05a | |
| 1927 | Benonie Harrie | "How I Found Gold" | DAF_KT-05b | |
| 1927 | Benonie Harrie | "A Hunting Yarn" | DAF_KT-05c | |
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1989 | Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis | Conversation: Weaving | GD-MD-VSu-01 |
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2011 | Julian Lang, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith | Conversation | JL-CR-VS-01 |
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2011 | Julian Lang, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith | Conversation: vacuum cleaner story | JL-CR-VS-02 |
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2011 | Julian Lang, Vina Smith | Conversation: Julian's Day | JL-VS-01 |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" | JPH_KIM-08 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" | JPH_KIM-10 | |
| 1930 | Yaas | "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" | JPH_KT-01a | |
| 1930 | Yaas | "How Buzzard Became Bald" | JPH_KT-01b | |
| 1930 | Phoebe Maddux | Coyote's Journey | JPH_KT-05 | |
| 1930 | Fritz Hansen | Mourning Dove Gambles | JPH_KT-06 | |
| 1930 | Yaas | "How Fish were Transformed" | JPH_KT-07 | |
| 1930 | Abner's mother | "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" | JPH_KT-08 | |
| 1930 | Fritz Hansen | "Coyote Falls through the Living-House Roof Hole" | JPH_KT-12 | |
| 1929 | Phoebe Maddux | "Bluejay Myth" | JPH_PHM-24-343a | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | The Name of Tobacco | JPH_TKIC-III.2 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Black Nightshade | JPH_TKIC-III.3 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Downslope and Upslope Tobacco | JPH_TKIC-III.4 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Sense Characteristics | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Parts of the Tobacco Plant | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Leaf | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Gum | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.i | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Phases of Flowering | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1' | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Seed | JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.k | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | They Knew That Seeds Will Grow | JPH_TKIC-IV.3 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | But They Never Packed Seeds Home | JPH_TKIC-IV.4 | |
| 1932 | Phoebe Maddux | Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage | JPH_TKIC-IV.5 | |
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2009 | Lucille Albers | Sentences about fear and going places | LA-01 |
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2010 | Lucille Albers | Sentences about acorns, weather | LA-02 |
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2012 | Lucille Albers | Sentences about morning activities | LA-03 |
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2010 | Lucille Albers | Sentences about animals, insects, and going places | LA-04 |
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2010 | Vina Smith, Lucille Albers | Sentences with verb paradigms | LA-VS-01 |
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2010 | Sonny Davis | Sentences about body parts, etc. | SD-01 |
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2010 | Sonny Davis | Sentences about speaking Karuk | SD-02 |
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2016 | Sonny Davis | Sentences about cooking | SD-03 |
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2010 | Vina Smith, Sonny Davis | Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses | SD-VS-01 |
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2010 | Vina Smith, Sonny Davis | Sentences about driving and directions | SD-VS-02 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences: questions and answers | VS-01 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences about asking name, adjectives | VS-02 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences: questions | VS-03 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about personal states | VS-04 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about personal states | VS-05 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about personal states | VS-06 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences with words for accent | VS-07 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about possession, location | VS-08 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands | VS-09 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences with words for accent | VS-10 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences with verb paradigms, words for accent | VS-11 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about putting and motion | VS-12 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about spatial relations | VS-13 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences about animals, questions | VS-14 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences about animals, questions | VS-15 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences: questions | VS-16 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences: questions and answers, verb tenses | VS-17 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences about comparisons | VS-18 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich | VS-19 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk | VS-20a |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk | VS-20b |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk | VS-20c |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk | VS-20d |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences: actions and instrumentals | VS-21 |
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2015 | Vina Smith | I'll Never Forget Those Days | VS-22 |
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2015 | Vina Smith | Biscuits | VS-23 |
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2015 | Vina Smith | Washing | VS-24 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes | VS-25 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences: pretty sisters | VS-26 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences: adjectives | VS-27 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences: adjectives | VS-28 |
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2010 | Vina Smith | Sentences: questions, answers, possessives | VS-29 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentence: cooking fish | VS-30 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing | VS-31 |
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2015 | Vina Smith | Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way | VS-32 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about spatial relations | VS-33 |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about rocks and trees. | VS-34a |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about a cat | VS-34b |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about sitting, standing and lying | VS-35a |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about feeling cold, playing, and getting old | VS-35b |
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2011 | Vina Smith | Sentences about looking and talking to people | VS-36 |
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2012 | Vina Smith | Sentences about weaving a hat | VS-37 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences about making sandwiches | VS-38 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences about food and drink | VS-39 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Sentences about family | VS-41 |
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2013 | Vina Smith | Gathering wood | VS-47 |
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2004 | Violet Super | Violet Cooking | VSu-01 |
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2004 | Violet Super | Violet's Picture | VSu-02 |
| 1989 | Violet Super | Violet's Dog | VSu-03 | |
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2004 | Violet Super | Violet Working | VSu-04 |
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1989 | Violet Super | Sentences about weather and cooking | VSu-05 |
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1989 | Violet Super | Why the eel has no bones | VSu-06 |
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2004 | William Bright | "Speech to Karuk Tribal Council" | WB-01 |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Swearing" | WB_KL-0 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote's Journey" | WB_KL-01 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote's Homecoming" | WB_KL-02 | |
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1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) | WB_KL-02a |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Coyote's Journey" | WB_KL-03 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Coyote's Journey" | WB_KL-04 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Coyote's Journey" | WB_KL-05 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" | WB_KL-06 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote Trades Songs" | WB_KL-07 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Coyote Goes to the Sky" | WB_KL-08 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" | WB_KL-09 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Coyote Steals Fire" | WB_KL-10 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote as Doctor" | WB_KL-11 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" | WB_KL-12 | |
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1957 | Chester Pepper | "Coyote's Gambling Song" | WB_KL-13 |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" | WB_KL-14 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Coyote As Lawmaker" | WB_KL-15 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" | WB_KL-16 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" | WB_KL-17 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "The Perils of Weasel" | WB_KL-18 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Perils of Weasel" | WB_KL-19 | |
| 1957 | Daisy Jones | "The Perils of Weasel" | WB_KL-20 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Hair in the Soup" | WB_KL-21 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "Old Man Turtle Dances" | WB_KL-22 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "The Greedy Father" | WB_KL-23 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Greedy Father" | WB_KL-24 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "Duck Hawk and His Wife" | WB_KL-25 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Duck Hawk and His Wife" | WB_KL-26 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Duck Hawk and His Wife" | WB_KL-27 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Blue Jay As Doctor" | WB_KL-28 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Blue Jay As Doctor" | WB_KL-29 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" | WB_KL-30 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" | WB_KL-31 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Bear and the Deer" | WB_KL-32 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" | WB_KL-33 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" | WB_KL-34 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "The Story of Madrone" | WB_KL-35 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Why Towhee Has Red Eyes" | WB_KL-36 | |
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1957 | Mamie Offield | "Eel and Sucker" | WB_KL-37 |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Story of Slug" | WB_KL-38 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Adulterers Discovered" | WB_KL-39 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Story of Bear" | WB_KL-40 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Creation of Eels" | WB_KL-41 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Story of Crane" | WB_KL-42 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" | WB_KL-43 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" | WB_KL-44 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Victory Over Fire" | WB_KL-45 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Story of Skunk" | WB_KL-46 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "The Origin of the Pikiawish" | WB_KL-47 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Origin of the Pikiawish" | WB_KL-48 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" | WB_KL-49 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Medicine to Get a Husband" | WB_KL-50 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Love Medicine" | WB_KL-51 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Medicine for the Return of Wives" | WB_KL-52 | |
| 1957 | Chester Pepper | "Deer-hunting Medicine" | WB_KL-53 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Shinny Game Medicine" | WB_KL-54 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "Wrestling Medicine" | WB_KL-55 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Flood" | WB_KL-56 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Boy from Itúkuk" | WB_KL-57 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" | WB_KL-58 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Pool in Big Rock" | WB_KL-59 | |
| 1957 | Daisy Jones | "The Snake People" | WB_KL-60 | |
| 1957 | Lottie Beck | "The Kidnapped Child" | WB_KL-61 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Devil Discovered" | WB_KL-62 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Devil Who Died Laughing" | WB_KL-63 | |
| 1957 | Mamie Offield | "The Devil and the Girl" | WB_KL-64 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The White Man's Gifts" | WB_KL-65 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "How the Rube Family Was Named" | WB_KL-66 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "A Quack Doctor" | WB_KL-67 | |
| 1957 | Maggie Charley | "Indian Food" | WB_KL-68 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Salmon Fishing" | WB_KL-69 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Deer Hunting" | WB_KL-70 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Bear Hunting" | WB_KL-71 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Elk Hunting" | WB_KL-72 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Making Acorn Soup" | WB_KL-73 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Making Acorn Soup" | WB_KL-74 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Soaking Acorns" | WB_KL-75 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Sweathouse" | WB_KL-76 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Living-house" | WB_KL-77 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Shinny Game" | WB_KL-78 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "Work Contests" | WB_KL-79 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Sucking Doctor" | WB_KL-80 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "The Sweating Doctor" | WB_KL-81 | |
| 1957 | Emily Donahue | "The Pikiawish at Katimin" | WB_KL-82 | |
| 1957 | Nettie Ruben | "The Pikiawish at Katimin" | WB_KL-83 | |
| 1957 | Maggie Charley | "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" | WB_KL-84 | |
| 1957 | Emily Donahue | "Preparing Basket Materials" | WB_KL-85 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Indian Clothes" | WB_KL-86 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Tattoos" | WB_KL-87 | |
| 1957 | Emily Donahue | "Professor Gifford's Visit" | WB_KL-88 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "A Birthday Party" | WB_KL-89 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Smoke" | WB_KL-90 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "A Blow-out" | WB_KL-91 | |
| 1957 | Julia Starritt | "Responses to Pictures" | WB_KL-92 | |
| Various speakers | "Miscellaneous Sentences" | WB_KV | ||
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1949 | Nettie Ruben, Lottie Beck | Conversation and stick game medicine story | WB_LA78.1-001 |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben, Lottie Beck | Conversation about doctors | WB_LA78.1-003 |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben | "Blue Jay as Doctor" | WB_LA78.1-004a |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben | "Old Man Turtle" | WB_LA78.1-004b |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben | "The Boy from Itúttuk" | WB_LA78.1-006 |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben, Lottie Beck | Conversation (mostly relating to the írahiv) | WB_LA78.1-007 |
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1949 | Chester Pepper | "Klamath Lakes Young Man" | WB_LA78.1-013 |
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1949 | Chester Pepper | "The First Sweathouse Spirit" | WB_LA78.1-015 |
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1949 | Chester Pepper | "Deer-hunting Medicine" | WB_LA78.1-016a |
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1949 | Chester Pepper | "Coyote and the Sun" | WB_LA78.1-016b |
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1949 | Chester Pepper | "Coyote as Priest" | WB_LA78.1-016c |
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1949 | Nettie Ruben | "How Coyote Traded Songs" | WB_LA78.1-020 |