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Voices from four directions : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America / edited by Brian Swann.

Swann, Brian. (Added Author).

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Publisher description: Storytelling and singing continue to be a vital part of community life for Native peoples today. Voices from Four Directions gathers stories and songs from thirty-one Native groups in North America -- including the Inupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East. Vivid stories of cosmological origins and transformation, historical events remembered and retold, as well as legendary fables can be found in these pages. Well-known Trickster figures like Raven, Rabbit, and Coyote figure prominently in several tales as do heroes of local fame such as Tom Laporte of the Maliseets. The stories and songs entertain, instruct, and recall rich legacies as well as obligations. Many are retellings and reinventions of classic narratives, while others are more recent creations. Award-winning poet and critic Brian Swann has gathered some of the richest and most diverse literatures of Native North America and provides an introduction to the volume. In addition, each story is introduced and newly translated.

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  • ISBN: 0803243006
  • ISBN: 9780803243002
  • ISBN: 0803293100
  • ISBN: 9780803293106
  • Physical Description: xxii, 617 pages ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1. North -- Koryak -- Raven tales from Kamchatka / Alexander D. King -- Tlingit -- Raven stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- Iñupiaq -- The young woman who disappeared / Lawrence Kaplan and Tadataka Nagai -- Two children adrift / Edna Ahgeak MacLean -- Part 2. West -- Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw -- Giver / Judith Berman -- Haida -- The sea lion hunter / Robert Bringhurst -- The blind man at Island Point town and the one who went around the sea as a halibut / John Enrico -- Okanagan -- Prophecy at Lytton / Wendy Wickwire -- Lushootseed -- Coyote and his son / Crisca Bierwert -- Sahaptin -- Celilo / Virginia Hymes -- Upper Coquille Athabaskan -- Two tales of power / William R. Seaburg -- Lake Miwok -- How coyote remade the world / Catherine A. Callaghan -- Miguelino Salinan -- Snake / Katherine Turner -- Yana -- Young Blue Jay's journey to the land of the new moon / Herbert W. Luthin -- Quechan -- Old Lady Sanyu-xáv / Amy Miller -- Part 3. South -- Western Apache -- He became an eagle / M. Eleanor Nevins and Thomas J. Nevins -- Navajo -- The flight of Dzilyi neeyáni / Paul G. Zolbrod -- Coyote stories / Rex Lee Jim -- San Juan Pueblo-Tewa -- The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh / Hao Huang -- O'odham -- Whirlwind songs / David Kozak -- Kiowa -- The red wolf story / Luke Eric Lassiter -- Cherokee -- Thunder and the Ukten / Willard Walker -- Yuchi -- Trickster tales / Mary S. Linn and Jason Baird Jackson -- Catawba -- Four fables / Blair A. Rudes -- Part 4. East -- Lakota -- Double-face tricks a girl / Julian Rice -- Ioway-Otoe-Missouria -- Rabbit frees the people from muskrat / Jimm G. Goodtracks -- Meskwaki -- Two winter stories / Ives Goddard -- Menominee -- Red Swan / Monica Macaulay and Marianne Milligan -- Ojibwe -- The birth of Nenabozho / Rand Valentine -- Seneca -- Creation story / Wallace Chafe -- Oneida -- The origins of man / Herbert S. Lewis -- Maliseet -- The legendary Tom Laporte / Philip S. LeSourd -- Mìgmaq -- Three stories / Jennifer Andrews and Robert M. Leavitt -- Naskapi -- Umâyichîs / Julie Brittain and Marguerite MacKenzie.
Part 1. North 1 -- Part 2. West 81 -- Part 3. South 281 -- Part 4. East 395.
Language Note:
Translated into English.

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Indians of North America > Folklore.
Folk literature, Indian > North America.
Indian mythology > North America.
Tales > North America.
Legends > North America.

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