Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh (Coeur D'Alene Indians)

Rodney Frey. University of Washington Press, $40 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-295-98171-0

The history and culture of Coeur d'Alene Indians is also explored in Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh. University of Idaho anthropologist Rodney Frey quotes extensively from the first-person testimonies of contemporary Schitsu'umsh as he describes the landscape, precontact society, interactions with European colonists and the present-day culture of the people. He emphasizes the oral traditions by which myths and tribal histories are still passed on to younger generations. (Apr.)

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