Coyote is clever, hungry, and always up to something—especially when there’s food to be found! But what happens when his tricks lead him straight into a trap? Open the page and tiptoe into the cedar’s secret…
A Coquille Winter Tale – Share Only When Snow Dusts the Dunes
Hi! I’m Taytshee’ Ashshay (my pen name, spelled simply for English tongues), is Tee-lhi Ch’aa-she in Nuu-wee-ya’, and it means “Snow Bird.”
My father-in-law, a proud elder of the Coquille Indian Tribe, gifted me this name with a smile and a story.
I hope these River Whisper Tales warm your heart—Welcome to the journey.
Nuu-wee-ya’ (also written Nuu-da’ Mv-ne’) is the traditional language of the Tututni (Lower Rogue River) people, one of several Athabaskan-speaking bands along the southwestern Oregon coast. It belongs to the Pacific Coast Athabaskan branch of the larger Athabaskan (Na-Dené) language family—the same family that includes Navajo, Apache, Hupa, and, distantly, Tlingit up in Alaska.