Title:
Sky loom : Native American myth, story, and song / edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.
Author:
Swann, Brian, editor.
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Call Number:
E98.F6 S55 2014
Abstract:
"Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is a stunning collection that provides a glimpse into the intricacies and beauties of story and myth, placing them in their cultural, historical, and linguistic contexts. Each of the twenty-six selections is translated and introduced by a well-known expert on Native oral literatures and offers entry into the cultures and traditions of several different tribes and bands, including the Yupiit and the Tlingits of the polar North; the Coast Salish and the Kwakwaka’wakw of the Pacific Northwest; the Navajos, the Pimas, and the Yaquis of the Southwest; the Lakota Sioux and the Plains Crees of the Great Plains; the Ojibwes of the Great Lakes; the Naskapis and the Eastern Crees of the Hudson Bay area in Canada; and the Munsees of the Northeast. Sky Loom takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through literary traditions older than the “discovery” of the New World"--amazon.com.
ISBN:
9780803246157
Series:
Native literatures of the Americas
Native literatures of the Americas.
Physical Description:
xvii, 537 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
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 / The flight of Dzilyi neeyáni / Red swan / The birth of Nenabozho / Umâyichîs / 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
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