Annie Miner Peterson (1860–1939) was a Coos Indian from the U.S. state of Oregon who was a cultural and linguistic consultant to Melville Jacobs, an anthropologist at the University of Washington.
[1] Annie was born in 1860 of a Coos Indian mother and a Euro-American father, James Miner, whom she never met, at the native village of Willanch (Wu'læ'ænch,[clarification needed][needs IPA] meaning good-weather-place) at the present-day Cooston,[2] on the east shore of upper Coos Bay on the southern Oregon Coast.
[4] Annie married three more times, unhappily, but her last marriage was a happy and compatible relationship with a Swedish logger named Carl Peterson.
Annie Miner Peterson was an accomplished basket maker, storyteller, and repository of Indigenous Coos languages and culture.
[7][8] Her full-length biography was published by University of Oklahoma Press in 1997: She's Tricky Like Coyote: Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman, by Lionel Youst.