Contents
xxv Preface
Colonial Period: To 1700
18 Native American Oral Literatures
21 Native American Oral Narrative
24 Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
38 Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo)
51 Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)
53 The Origin of Stories (Seneca)
56 Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois)
59 Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Oglala Sioux)
61 Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian)
63 The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
64 Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)
65 Native American Oral Poetry
68 Zuni Poetry
68 Sayatasha’s Night Chant
88 Aztec Poetry
88 The Singer’s Art
89 Two Songs
90 Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan)
91 Inuit Poetry
91 Song (Copper Eskimo)
92 Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)
92 Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)
93 Widow’s Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)
94 My Breath (Orpingalik, Netsilik Eskimo)
96 A Selection of Poems
96 Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-I, O’odham)
97 Love Song (Aleut)
97 Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To’ak, Makah)
98 A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot)
98 Woman’s Divorce Dance Song (Jane Green)