ISBN:
9780803204003
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (645 pages)
Series Statement:
Native Literatures of the Americas
Parallel Title:
Print version Swann, Brian Voices from Four Directions : Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
DDC:
398.2
Abstract:
Introduction -- Part 1. North -- Raven Tales from Kamchatka -- Raven Stories -- The Young Woman Who Disappeared -- Two Children Adrift -- Part 2. West -- Giver -- The Sea Lion Hunter -- The Blind Man at Island Point Town and the One Who Went around the Sea as a Halibut -- Prophecy at Lytton -- Coyote and His Son -- Celilo -- Two Tales of Power -- How Coyote Remade the World -- Snake -- Young Blue Jay's Journey to the Land of the New Moon -- Old Lady Sanyu·xáv -- Part 3. South -- He Became an Eagle -- The Flight of Dzilyi neeyáni -- Coyote Stories -- The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh -- Whirlwind Songs -- The Red Wolf Story -- Thunder and the Ukten -- Trickster Tales -- Four Fables -- Part 4. East -- Double-Face Tricks a Girl -- Rabbit Frees the People from Muskrat -- Two Winter Stories -- Red Swan -- The Birth of Nenabozho -- Creation Story -- The Origins of Man -- The Legendary Tom Laporte -- Three Stories -- Umâyichîs -- Contributors -- Index
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