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• ISBN: 0679743588
• ISBN: 9780679743583
• ISBN: 0679418164
• ISBN: 9780679418160
• Physical Description: xlvi, 801 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
• Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1996, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 773-783) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Alaska, Yukon, and the Subarctic. Two stories from Tikiġaq / Tom Lowenstein and Tukummiq -- Mary Kokrak : five brothers and their younger sister / Anthony C. Woodbury and Leo Moses -- Two tellings of the story of Uterneq : "The woman who returned from the dead" / Phyllis Morrow and Elsie Mather -- The boy who went to live with the seals / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade -- "The moon's sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts" / Knut Bergsland -- The one who kicked his grandmother's head along / Eliza Jones and Catherine Attla -- "Raven" and "Fog woman" / Antone Evan and Jane McGary -- Six selections from Peter Kalifornsky's A Dena'ina legacy / James Kari -- The girl who married the bear / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge -- How the world began / Julie Cruikshank and Angela Sidney -- "Glacier Bay history" told by Amy Marvin and "Speech for the removal of grief" delivered by Jessie Dalton / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- Dunne-za stories / Robin Ridington -- Mistacayawāsis, big belly child / Robert Brightman, Angelique Linklater, and Henry Linklater -- Wolverine : an Innu trickster / Lawrence Millman -- The north Pacific coast. John Sky's "One they gave away" / Robert Bringhurst -- Night hunter and day hunter / Judith Berman -- The sun's myth ; Coyote, master of death, true to life ; Seal and her younger brother lived there / Dell Hymes -- Great Basin and plateau. Hilda Austin's telling of "QwíqwAq́wAt́ [the smiling one] : a traditional Nłe?képmx [Salishan people] legend" / Steven M. Egesdal and M. Terry Thompson -- Blue Jay and his brother-in-law Wolf / Anthony Mattina -- Fish Hawk's raid against the Sioux / Jarold Ramsey -- Poetry songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance / Judith Vander -- The plains. Three Skiri Pawnee stories / Douglas Parks -- Two roads to leadership : grandmother's boy and last-born brother / Julian Rice -- Wilderness mentors / Elaine A. Jahner -- Wakinyan and Wakinyan Wicaktepi / Calvin W. Fast Wolf -- The eastern woodlands. Nanabush stories from the Ojibwe / Ridie Wilson Ghezzi -- Two Tuscarora legends / Blair A. Rudes -- The Iroquoian thanksgiving address / Michael K. Foster -- Tales of the Delaware trickster / John Bierhorst -- The Indian devil, mischief-maker / David A. Francis and Robert M. Leavitt -- Running the deer / Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina -- Pima Oriole songs / Donald Bahr and Vincent Joseph -- Ethnopoetic retranslation of a Zuni ritual song sequence / M. Jane Young -- Because he made marks on paper, the soldiers came / Dennis Tedlock -- Coyote, skunk, and the prairie dogs / Barre Toelken -- Ma'ii Jooldloshí Hane' : stories about Coyote, the one who trots / Timothy Benally Sr. -- Singing up the mountain / Paul G. Zolbrod --Enemy slayer's horse song / David P. McAllester -- Joseph Hoffman's "The birth of he triumphs over evils" : a Western Apache origin story / Keith H. Basso and Nashley Tessay Sr. -- The boy who went in search of his father / Ekkehart Malotki -- Two Hopi songpoems / David Leedom Shaul -- The farewell song / Leanne Hinton -- Two Koasati traditional narratives / Geoffrey Kimball -- California. Two stories from the Yana / Herbert W. Luthin -- Silver-Gray Fox creates another world / Darryl Babe Wilson -- Two Maidu myths / William Shipley -- Myth, music, and magic : Nettie Reuben's Karuk love medicine / William Bright.

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Indian literature > North America > Translations into English.
Folk literature, Indian > North America > Translations into English.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian literature.
North America.

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Translations.