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Coming to light : contemporary translations of the native literatures of North America / edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.

Swann, Brian. (Added Author).

Summary:

An anthology of Native American literatures draws on the work of more than two hundred tribes across the United States and Canada and provides information on historical and cultural contexts.

Record details

  • 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.
Subject:
Indian literature > North America > Translations into English.
Folk literature, Indian > North America > Translations into English.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian literature.
North America.
Genre:
Translations.

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