The Coos People

Much of what the Coos work from today was kept by one woman. Annie Miner Peterson, born about 1860, spoke both Hanis and Miluk, the two Coos languages, and Miluk was thought by then to be gone. In the summers of 1933 and 1934 she worked with the linguist Melville Jacobs, recording myths, narratives and songs in both, more than a hundred Miluk texts in all. She died at her Charleston home in 1939. The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians now use her texts to bring Miluk back.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shore Acres State Park — 7.4 mi
  A timber family's clifftop estate whose mansion burned three months after its mistress died, whose larger replacement the state could not keep, and whose gardens it did.
• Bandon — 20 mi
  A town at the mouth of the Coquille built near the site of an 1854 massacre, named for a town in Ireland, and burned in 1936 by the Irish gorse its founder planted.

More markers nearby

• Coos Bay - Explore More — steps away
• Shifting Sands - Sand Dunes — steps away
• The Hollering Place — steps away
• Southern Oregon Coast Region — 3.7 mi