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

Includes bibliographical references.

From Smoothing the ground : essays on Native American oral literature: Stone Boy : persistent hero / Elaine Jahner -- From On the translation of Native American literatures: Oolachan-woman's robe : fish, blankets, masks, and meaning in Boas's Kwakw'ala texts / Judith Berman -- Narrative styles in Dakota Texts / Julian Rice -- From Coming to light : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America: The boy who went to live with the seals / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade -- The girl who married the bear / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge -- John Sky's "One they gave away" / Robert Bringhurst -- The sun's myth / Dell Hymes -- Coyote, master of death, true to life / Dell Hymes -- Seal and her younger brother lived there / Dell Hymes -- Poetry songs of the Shoshone ghost dance / Judith Vander -- Running the deer / Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina -- Pima Oriole songs / Donald Bahr and Vincent Joseph -- Enemy Slayer's horse song / David P. McAllester -- Two stories from the Yana / Herbert W. Luthin -- From Voices from four directions : contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America: -- Raven stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- He became an eagle / M. Eleanor Nevins and Thomas J. Nevins -- Paul G. Zolbrod -- Red swan / Monica Macaulay and Marianne Milligan -- The birth of Nenabozho / Rand Valentine -- Julie Brittain and Marguerite Mackenzie -- From Algonquian spirit : contemporary translations of the Algonquian literatures of North America: The Delaware creation story / John Bierhorst -- A pair of hero stories / Susan M. Preston -- Winter stories / Ives Goddard -- Pine root / Stan Cuthand -- Ghost dance songs / Jeffrey D. Anderson From Salish myths and legends : one people's stories: Star husband : two brothers' versions of a traditional Skokomish-Twana story / told by Frank Allen and by Henry Allen ; edited by William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal.