| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Origin Myth of Acoma -- The White Buffalo Calf Pipe -- Four Menomini Tales -- The Man Who Transgressed A Taboo -- A Warrior's Heart -- The Jealous Ghost -- How the Menomini Learned the Use of Liquor -- Harlots -- High Horse's Courting -- The Winnebago Trickster Cycle -- The Walam Olum of the Delawares -- Chippewa Songs -- A Song of Spring -- My Love Has Departed -- I Can Charm the Man -- Why Should I Be Jealous? -- If I Am Beaten -- I Am as Brave as Other Men -- Come, Let Us Drink -- The Man Who Stayed at Home -- Scalp Song -- A Song of Indecision -- You Desire Vainly -- He Is Gone -- Love Song -- One Wind -- The Noise of the Village -- Teton Sioux Songs -- With Dauntless Courage -- Opening Prayer of the Sun Dance -- Wakan'tanka Hears Me -- I Have Conquered Them -- I Come -- Song of the Elk Society -- Song of the Strong Heart Society -- Watch Your Horses -- You Have No Horses -- The Earth Only Endures -- Song Concerning a Message from Washington -- Mandan and Hidatsa Songs -- The Corn Is My Pleasure -- He Stared at Me -- Take Me to the Sioux -- I Will Go -- Comrades, Sleep On -- Disguised as a Buffalo -- We Made Fire -- Song of Derision -- Kiowa "29" Songs -- Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt -- Early Boyhood -- The Rubbing Out of Longhair -- Wah'Kon-Tah, by John Joseph Mathews -- "We Are Fed Like Dogs" -- Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, by John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes -- The Gun in the New York Museum Belongs to Me -- Talking to the Owls and Butterflies -- Medicine Good and Bad -- The Way to Rainy Mountain, by N. Scott Momaday Introduction -- Red Jacket -- Pontiac's Allegory -- Tecumseh's Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws -- James Welch -- Magic Fox -- Getting Things Straight -- Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation -- D-Y Bar -- Arizona Highways -- The Man from Washington -- In the American Express Line -- Plea to Those Who Matter -- Grandma's Man -- N. Scott Momaday -- Simile -- The Bear -- Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion -- Angle of Geese -- The Fear of Bo-Talee -- Lance Henson -- Cheyenne Winter -- Extinction -- Flock -- Bay Poem -- Impressions of the Peyote Ritual -- Carter Revard -- Wazhazhe Grandmother -- Support Your Local Police Dog -- Driving in Oklahoma -- William Jay Smith -- The Tall Poets -- Dachshunds -- American Primitive -- Simon Ortiz -- A Barroom Fragment -- Washyuma Motor Hotel -- The Significance of a Veteran's Day To & Fro -- Richard Aitson -- The Sun Is Blue -- Winter -- Old Man Poem -- Walk (for Downing) -- Gus Palmer -- Frieze -- Message to Spring, or, The Choctaw Virgin Moon -- Noon Winter -- For Paolo and Francesca, Lovers, In Cold -- For Theodore Roethke: 1908-1962 -- The Poignant Beast -- Stone Carvers -- From Winter in the Blood, by James Welch -- From House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday -- "Rite of Encounter," by Russell Bates |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- United States -- Translations into English.
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Indian literature. |
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United States. |
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Folk literature, Indian -- Translations into English.
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Folk literature, Indian. |
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Indians of North America -- Literary collections.
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Indians of North America. |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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| Subject |
American literature -- Indian authors.
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American literature -- Indian authors. |
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Littérature indienne d'Amérique -- États-Unis -- Traductions anglaises. |
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Littérature américaine -- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Velie, Alan R., 1937-
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| ISBN |
0806115300 : $15.95 |
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9780806115306 |
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0806115238 (paperback) $6.95 |
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9780806115238 (paperback) |
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