Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song /

Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song / edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann. - xvii, 537 pages ; 23 cm. - Native literatures of the Americas . - Native literatures of the Americas. .

Includes bibliographical references.

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

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Folk literature, Indian--North America.
Indians of North America--Folklore.
Indian mythology--North America.
Tales--North America.
Legends--North America.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian mythology.
Indians of North America.
Legends.
Tales.


North America.


Folklore.

E98.F6 / S55 2014

398.2089/97