Legacy of the First Nation, Voices of a Generation

Doty Meets Coyote is an audio tapestry of traditional and original Native American stories from the American West told by master storyteller Thomas Doty. It is Thomas Doty's work as a storyteller to not only perpetuate the Old Time myths with integrity but to add new stories to the collective basket of folklore, just as tellers before him have done for centuries. Storytelling is an ancient tradition as well as a living art. Thomas Doty's adventures with Coyote find them journeying into the rich native culture and traditions of Doty's ancestors. Ancestors and Elders Grandma Maude Grandmother Sun and Stories Come Into the World Together Doty Meets Coyote Crater Lake The Woman Loved Trees The Truths of Trees The Legend of Table Mountain Jackrabbit Cuts Down Trees Sixth Grade and Beyond The Wind A Mythtime Walk Up Lower Table Rock Panther and the Deer On Younger Daldal's Back Ribs of the Animal Remembering Bear The Boy Who Lived with a Bear Native Woman All Night Salmon Leap the Falls The Boy Walked Into the Sun, His Father Into the Moon Mother Landscape Waiting for Rock Old Woman Journey to the Land of the Dead Where Koomookumpts Sleeps Where the Sun and Moon Live At Their Best, Stories Heal Panther and the White Duck Women Long Walk Home The Yellowjackets Steal Coyote's Salmon Night of Ghosts, Night of Stories Dog Brings Fire to the People Writing on the Rocks Five Nights at Medicine Rock The Snake Story Tree at Kilchis Point The Sun Rolls North and South My Circle John Beeson's Ghost Words at the End of a Storytelling "I pray that Tom lives for a long, long time so that generations ahead can hear these stories." "Thomas Doty is a cultural treasure. From the Black Hills of South Dakota, to the deserts of the Southwest, to the Oregon Country, he is the best spinner of native myths I have ever heard. And I've heard quite a few." "Doty is a master of both traditional and original Native American stories. His love and understanding of the magic of stories seems to be the source of his amazing talent, not to forget his twenty-eight years of experience." "One of the best of Oregon's storytellers." "It is a rarity indeed when a friend comes along who can relate traditional Native American stories with such clarity and flair! He captures your imagination and transports you back to yesteryear." "Thomas Doty is a treasured Native American storyteller. He has the very real talent to interweave an ancient story with endless wonder and surprise while connecting both the story and the characters with today. When he tells the story, he becomes the character described and the audience is transported to that moment and place."

Agnes Baker Pilgrim, known to most as Grandma Aggie, is in her nineties and is the oldest living member of the Takelma Tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz. A descendant of both spiritual and political tribal leaders, Grandma Aggie travels tirelessly around the world to keep traditions alive, to help those in need, and to be a voice for the voiceless, helping everyone to remember to preserve our Earth for animals and each other in a spiritual environment. Considered an excellent speaker, she has mesmerized her audience wherever she appears, and now her wit, wisdom, memories, advice, stories and spirituality have been captured for all to hear. Honored as a "Living Cultural Legend" by the Oregon Council of the Arts, Grandma Aggie here speaks about her childhood memories, about her tribe and her life as a child growing up in an area that often didn't allow Indians and dogs into many public places, as well as about such contemporary issues as bullying, teen suicide, drugs and alcohol, Pope Francis, President Obama, water conservation, climate change, and much more. This is an amazing recording of one of the oldest and most important voices of the First Nation and of the world. Her stories and advice will mesmerize and captivate you, as well as provide a blueprint for how all the inhabitants of the earth can live together in harmony, spirituality, and peace.