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Title Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song / edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource.
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Native literatures of the Americas
Native literatures of the Americas.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Stone boy : persistent hero (Lakota) / Elaine Jahner -- Oolachan-Woman's robe : fish, blankets, masks, and meaning in Boas's Kwakw'ala texts (Kwakwa'ala/Kwakiutl) / Judith Berman -- Narrative styles in Dakota texts (Lakota) / Julian Rice -- The boy who went to live with the seals (Yupik) / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade -- The girl who married the bear (Tagish/Tlingit) / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge -- John Sky's "One they gave away" (Haida) / Robert Bringhurst -- The sun's myth (Cathlamet Chinook) / Dell Hymes -- Coyote, master of death, true to life (Kalapuya) / Dell Hymes -- Seal and her younger brother lived there (Clackamas Chinook) / Dell Hymes -- Poetry songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance (Wind River Shoshone) / Judith Vander -- Running the deer (Yaqui) / Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina -- Pima Oriole Songs (Pima) / Donal Bahr and Vincent Joseph -- Enemy slayer's horse song (Navajo) / David P. McAllester -- Two stories from the Yana (Yana) / Herbert W. Luthin -- Raven stories (Tlingit) / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- He became an eagle (Western Apache) / M. Eleanor Nevins and Thomas J. Nevins -- The flight of Dzilyi neeyáni (Navajo) / Paul G. Zolbrod -- Red swan (Menominee) / Monica MaCaulay and Marianne Milligan -- The birth of nenabozho (Ojibwe) / Rand Valentine -- Umâyichîs (Naskapi) / Julie Brittain and Marguerite MacKenzie -- The Delaware creation story (Munsee) / John Bierhorst -- A pair of hero stories (Easter Cree) / Susan M. Preston -- Winter stories (Meskwaki/Fox) / Ives Goddard -- Pine root (Plains Cree) / Stan Cuthand -- Ghost Dance songs (Arapaho) / Jeffrey D. Anderson -- Star husband : two brothers' versions of a traditional Skokomish-Twana story (Skokomish-Twana) / William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Folk literature, Indian -- North America.
Folk literature, Indian.
North America.
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Indian mythology -- North America.
Indian mythology.
Tales -- North America.
Tales.
Legends -- North America.
Legends.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Folklore.
Added Author Swann, Brian, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sky loom. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014 9780803246157 (DLC) 2014019777 (OCoLC)877370255
ISBN 9780803276017 (electronic book)
080327601X (electronic book)
9780803246157
0803246153