Native American verbal art : texts and contexts

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Native American verbal art : texts and contexts / William M. Clements.

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: "Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.