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• ISBN: 0806115300
• ISBN: 9780806115306
• ISBN: 0806115238
• ISBN: 9780806115238
• Physical Description: xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1979.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Tales -- Songs -- Memoirs -- Oratory -- Poetry -- Fiction.

Tales -- The Origin Myth of Acoma -- The White Buffalo Calf Pipe -- Four Menomini Tales : The Man Who Transgressed A Taboo ; A Warrior's Heart ; The Jealous Ghost ; How the Menomini Learned the Use of Liquor -- Harlots -- High Horse's Courting -- The Winnebago Trickster Cycle -- Songs -- The Walam Olum of the Delawares -- Cheppewa Songs : A Song of Spring ; My Love Has Departed ; I Can Charm the Man ; Why Should I Be Jealous? ; If I Am Beaten ; I Am as Brave as Other Men ; Come, Let Us Drink ; The Man Who Stayed at Home ; Scalp Song ; A Song of Indecision ; You Desire Vainly ; He Is Gone ; Love Song ; One Wind ; The Noise of the Village -- Teton Sioux Songs : With Dauntless Courage ; Opening Prayer of the Sun Dance ; Wakan'tanka Hears Me ; I Have Conquered Them ; I Come ; Song of the Elk Society ; Song of the Strong Heart Society ; Watch Your Horses ; The Earth Only Endures ; Song Concerning a Message from Washington -- Mandan and Hidatsa Songs : The Corn Is My Pleasure ; He Stared at Me ; Take Me to the Sioux ; I Will Go ; Comrades, Sleep On ; Disguised as a Buffalo ; We Made Fire ; Song of Derision -- Kiowa "49" Songs -- Memoirs -- Black Elk Speaks / John G. Neihardt -- Early Boyhood / John G. Neihardt -- The Rubbing Out of Longhair / John G. Neihardt -- Wah'Kon-Tah / Joseph Mathews -- "We Are Fed Like Dogs" / Joseph Mathews -- Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions / John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- That Gun in the New York Museum Belongs to Me / John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- Talking to the Owls and Butterflies / John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- Medicine Good and Bad / John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday -- Introduction / N. Scott Momaday -- Oratory -- Red Jacket -- Pontiac's Allegory -- Tecumseh's Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws -- Poetry -- Magic Fox / James Welch -- Getting Things Straight / James Welch -- Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation / James Welch -- D-Y Bar / James Welch -- Arizona Highways / James Welch -- The Man from Washington / James Welch -- In the American Express Line / James Welch -- Plea to Those Who Matter / James Welch -- -- Grandma's Man / James Welch -- Simile / N. Scott Momaday -- The Bear / N. Scott Momaday -- Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion / N. Scott Momaday -- Angle of Geese / N. Scott Momaday -- The Fear of Bo-Talee / N. Scott Momaday -- Cheyenne Winter / Lance Henson -- Extinction / Lance Henson -- Flock / Lance Henson -- Bay Poem / Lance Henson -- Impressions of the Peyote Ritual / Lance Henson -- Wazhazhe Grandmother / Carter Revard -- Support Your Local Police Dog / Carter Revard -- Driving in Oklahoma / Carter Revard -- The Tall Poets / William Jay Smith -- Dachshunds / William Jay Smith -- American Primitive / William Jay Smith -- A Barroom Fragment / Simon Ortiz -- Washyuma Motor Hotel / Simon Ortiz -- The Significance of a Veteran's Day / Simon Ortiz -- To & Fro / Simon Ortiz -- The Sun Is Blue / Richard Aitson -- Winter / Richard Aitson -- Old Man Poem / Richard Aitson -- Walk (for Downing) / Richard Aitson -- Frieze / Gus Palmer -- Message to Spring, or, The Choctaw Virgin Moon / Gus Palmer -- Noon / Gus Palmer -- Winter / Gus Palmer -- For Paolo and Francesca, Lovers, In Cold / Gus Palmer -- For Theodore Roethke: 1908-1962 / Gus Palmer -- The Poignant Beast / Gus Palmer -- Stone Carvers / Gus Palmer -- Fiction -- from Winter in the Blood / James Welch -- from House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday -- "Rite of Encounter" / Russell Bates.

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