The first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators between 1910 and 1992 and are presented in the original Koasati verse and in English translation.
Geoffrey D. Kimball is an independent scholar. He is the author of Koasati Dictionary (Nebraska 1994) and Koasati Grammar (Nebraska 1991).
