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Voices from four directions : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America /

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 Iñupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Swann, Brian
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
North American Indian
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. North
  • Koryak
  • Raven Tales from Kamchatka
  • Tlingit
  • Raven Stories
  • Iñupiaq
  • The Young Woman Who Disappeared
  • Two Children Adrift
  • Part 2. West
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
  • Giver
  • Haida
  • The Sea Lion Hunter
  • The Blind Man at Island Point Town and the One Who Went around the Sea as a Halibut
  • Okanagan
  • Prophecy at Lytton
  • Lushootseed
  • Coyote and His Son
  • Sahaptin
  • Celilo
  • Upper Coquille Athabaskan
  • Two Tales of Power
  • Lake Miwok
  • How Coyote Remade the World
  • Miguelino Salinan
  • Snake
  • Yana
  • Young Blue Jay's Journey to the Land of the New Moon
  • Quechan
  • Old Lady Sanyu·xáv
  • Part 3. South
  • Wester Apache
  • He Became an Eagle
  • Navajo
  • The Flight of Dzilyi neeyáni
  • Coyote Stories
  • San Juan Pueblo-Tewa
  • The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh
  • O'odham
  • Whirlwind Songs
  • Kiowa
  • The Red Wolf Story
  • Cherokee
  • Thunder and the Ukten
  • Yuchi
  • Trickster Tales
  • Catawba
  • Four Fables
  • Part 4. East
  • Lakota
  • Double-Face Tricks a Girl
  • Ioway-Otoe-Missouria
  • Rabbit Frees the People from Muskrat
  • Meskwaki
  • Two Winter Stories
  • Menominee
  • Red Swan
  • Ojibwe
  • The Birth of Nenabozho
  • Seneca
  • Creation Story
  • Oenida
  • The Origins of Man
  • Maliseet
  • The Legendary Tom Laporte
  • Migmaq
  • Three Stories
  • Naskapi
  • Umâyichîs
  • Contributors.