ISBN:
9781496208668
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (402 pages)
Series Statement:
Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Palmer, Gus When Dream Bear Sings : Native Literatures of the Southern Plains
DDC:
398.2089/97
Keywords:
Folk literature, Indian-Great Plains
;
Indian literature-Great Plains-Translations into English
;
Indians of North America-Great Plains-Folklore
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Algonquian Language Family -- Cheyenne -- Cheyenne Stories and Storytelling Oral Traditions -- The Bear and the Coyote -- Cheyenne Story-Dogs Used to Carry Burdens in Days before Horses -- Cheyenne Story-Man Who Prophesied Coming of Horses and White Men Long Ago -- How Stories Were Told at Night by an Old Lady -- Birdie's Grandmother's Story of How Corn and Buffalo Were Given to the Cheyennes -- Absentee Shawnee -- Shawnee Poems -- Kickapoo -- The Motorcyclists -- Lenape -- The Lenape Story of the Origin of the Woman Dance -- Miami -- Myaamia "Story of Fox and Wolf" -- Potawatomi -- Pondese: Old Man Winter and Why We Have Spring Today -- Part 2: Athabaskan Language Family -- Plains Apache -- Coyote and Rock Monster -- Part 3: Caddoan Language Family -- Caddo -- The Wolf and the Wren -- Pawnee -- The Old Woman and Her Grandson Blessed by a Voice -- He Goes Over and the Burning Log: A Wolf Story -- A Pawnee Story -- Arikara -- The Race between the Horse and the Buffalo -- Kitsai -- Coyote Frees Buffalo -- Wichita -- Awa:hárikic: Hassí:ri:ha:stírih -- Part 4: Iroquoian Language Family -- Cherokee -- Diary -- I Shot It, You Shot It -- Seneca-Cayuga -- Minnie Thompson Stories -- Wyandotte -- History of the Wyandotte Indians -- Part 5: Kiowa-Tanoan Language Family -- Kiowa -- Já:mátàunhè:jègà (Star Girls Story) -- Part 6: Siouan Language Family -- Ponca -- A Ponca Ghost Story -- Otoe-Missouria -- Introduction to Otoe- Missouria -- The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers -- The Rabbit and the Mountain -- Ponca Omaha -- Ponca Omaha Letters Dictated and Taken by James Owen Dorsey -- Kaw -- Two Accounts of a Battle between the Kaws and Cheyennes -- Ioway -- The Sister and Brother -- Quapaw -- Introduction to Quapaw
Abstract:
The Rabbit and the Black Bears -- Part 7: Uto-Aztecan Language Family -- Comanche -- Blind Fox and Two Girls -- The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake -- Part 8: Language Isolate -- Introduction to Language Isolates -- Tonkawa -- The Young Man Who Became a Shaman -- Contributors -- Index
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