Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song

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Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song / edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.

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"Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is a stunning collection that provides a glimpse into the intricacies and beauties of story and myth, placing them in their cultural, historical, and linguistic contexts. Each of the twenty-six selections is translated and introduced by a well-known expert on Native oral literatures and offers entry into the cultures and traditions of several different tribes and bands, including the Yupiit and the Tlingits of the polar North; the Coast Salish and the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest; the Navajos, the Pimas, and the Yaquis of the Southwest; the Lakota Sioux and the Plains Crees of the Great Plains; the Ojibwes of the Great Lakes; the Naskapis and the Eastern Crees of the Hudson Bay area in Canada; and the Munsees of the Northeast. Sky Loom takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through literary traditions older than the “discovery” of the New World"--amazon.com.

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ISBN: 9780803246157
ISBN: 0803246153
Physical Description: xvii, 537 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: From Smoothing the ground : essays on Native American oral literature: Stone Boy : persistent hero / Elaine Jahner -- From On the translation of Native American literatures: Oolachan-woman's robe : fish, blankets, masks, and meaning in Boas's Kwakw'ala texts / Judith Berman -- Narrative styles in Dakota Texts / Julian Rice -- From Coming to light : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America: The boy who went to live with the seals / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade -- The girl who married the bear / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge -- John Sky's "One they gave away" / Robert Bringhurst -- The sun's myth / Dell Hymes -- Coyote, master of death, true to life / Dell Hymes -- Seal and her younger brother lived there / Dell Hymes -- Poetry songs of the Shoshone ghost dance / Judith Vander -- Running the deer / Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina -- Pima Oriole songs / Donald Bahr and Vincent Joseph -- Enemy Slayer's horse song / David P. McAllester -- Two stories from the Yana / Herbert W. Luthin -- From Voices from four directions : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America: -- Raven stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- He became an eagle / M. Eleanor Nevins and Thomas J. Nevins -- The flight of Dzilyi neeyáni / Paul G. Zolbrod -- Red swan / Monica Macaulay and Marianne Milligan -- The birth of Nenabozho / Rand Valentine -- Umâyichîs / Julie Brittain and Marguerite Mackenzie -- From Algonquian spirit : contemporary translations of the Algonquian literatures of North America: The Delaware creation story / John Bierhorst -- A pair of hero stories / Susan M. Preston -- Winter stories / Ives Goddard -- Pine root / Stan Cuthand -- Ghost dance songs / Jeffrey D. Anderson From Salish myths and legends : one people's stories: Star husband : two brothers' versions of a traditional Skokomish-Twana story / told by Frank Allen and by Henry Allen ; edited by William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal.

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