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Title When Dream Bear sings : Native literatures of the southern Plains / edited by Gus Palmer Jr. ; foreword by Alan R. Velie.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Native literatures of the Americas and Indigenous world literatures series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Note Includes index.
Summary "Collection of songs, orations, myths, stories, legends, and other oral literatures from seven of the major language groups of the Great Plains: Muskogean, Uto-Aztecan, Caddoan, Siouan, Algonquian, Kiowa-Tanoan, and Athabascan"--Provided by publisher.
Contents 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 DanceMiami; 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 ItSeneca-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; The Rabbit and the Black Bears
Part 7: Uto-Aztecan Language FamilyComanche; 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indian literature -- Great Plains -- Translations into English.
Indian literature.
Great Plains.
Folk literature, Indian -- Great Plains.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Folklore.
Indians of North America.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Translations.
Added Author Palmer, Gus, 1943- editor.
Velie, Alan R., 1937- writer of foreword.
ISBN 9781496208668 (electronic book)
1496208668 (electronic book)
9780803284005
0803284004