18, 1861. The Oregon country represented by Klayukat's tales is meant to include the vast unbounded territory known by that name previous to 1848. The material for the stories was garnered from the following books: "How the Animals got their Colors," Franz Boas, Bureau of American Ethnology: Kathlamet Texts, Bulletin 26, 39; "Why there is only One Southwest Wind," 67; "The Robin and the Salmon Berry," 118; "Why the Owl eats only Small Creatures," The Pacific Northwest Oregon and Washington, 2 vols., compiled and published by the Northwest Pacific History Company, Portland, Oregon, 1889, II, 66; "The Subjugation of the Thunderbird," 67; "How the Animals secured Salmon," 68; "Why the Tick is now Small," 69; "The Frog in the Moon," 70; "Why the Sun travels regularly," 70; "Why the Mosquito hates Smoke," 74; "Why the Snakes change their Skins," 76; "Why the Dead do not come back," 80.
While the essentials of the stories have been retained, the narratives have been elaborated and modified.
The setting of three Indians from different tribes on the same Californian ranch is historically true. Indian servants from Mexico and Lower California accompanied the pioneers northward; the California
