When Dream Bear sings : Native literatures of the Southern Plains

Palmer, Gus, 1943- (editor.). Velie, Alan R., 1937- (writer of foreword.).

Summary: "Collection of songs, orations, myths, stories, legends, and other oral literatures from seven of the major language groups of the Great Plains: Muskogean, Uto-Aztecan, Caddoan, Siouan, Algonquian, Kiowa-Tanoan, and Athabascan"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780803284005
ISBN: 0803284004
ISBN: 9781496208668
Physical Description: print
xli, 358 pages : map, music ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Alan R. Velie -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Algonquian Language Family. Cheyenne. Cheyenne Stories and Storytelling Oral Traditions / Gordon Yellowman -- The Bear and the Coyote / translated by Joyce Twins -- Cheyenne Story : Dogs Used to Carry Burdens in Days before Horses / Birdie Burns, Cheyenne, recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan -- Cheyenne Story : Man Who Prophesied Coming of Horses and White Men Long Ago / Birdie Burns, Cheyenne, recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan -- How Stories Were Told at Night by an Old Lady / Birdie Burns, Cheyenne, recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan -- Birdie's Grandmother's Story of How Corn and Buffalo Were Given to the Cheyennes / Birdie Burns, Cheyenne, recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan -- Absentee Shawnee. Shawnee Poems / narrated by Pauline Wahpepah, introduced by Gus Palmer Jr. -- Kickapoo. The Motorcyclists / Mosiah Bluecloud --