Voices from four directions contemporary translations of the Native literatures of North America (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. North -- Koryak -- Raven Tales from Kamchatka -- Tlingit -- Raven Stories -- Iñupiaq -- The Young Woman Who Disappeared -- Two Children Adrift -- Part 2. West -- Kwakwaka'wakw -- Giver -- Haida -- The Sea Lion Hunter -- The Blind Man at Island Point Town and the One Who Went around the Sea as a Halibut -- Okanagan -- Prophecy at Lytton -- Lushootseed -- Coyote and His Son -- Sahaptin -- Celilo -- Upper Coquille Athabaskan -- Two Tales of Power -- Lake Miwok -- How Coyote Remade the World -- Miguelino Salinan -- Snake -- Yana -- Young Blue Jay's Journey to the Land of the New Moon -- Quechan -- Old Lady Sanyu·xáv -- Part 3. South -- Wester Apache -- He Became an Eagle -- Navajo -- The Flight of Dzilyi neeyáni -- Coyote Stories -- San Juan Pueblo-Tewa -- The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh -- O'odham -- Whirlwind Songs -- Kiowa -- The Red Wolf Story -- Cherokee -- Thunder and the Ukten -- Yuchi -- Trickster Tales -- Catawba -- Four Fables -- Part 4. East -- Lakota -- Double-Face Tricks a Girl -- Ioway-Otoe-Missouria -- Rabbit Frees the People from Muskrat -- Meskwaki -- Two Winter Stories -- Menominee -- Red Swan -- Ojibwe -- The Birth of Nenabozho -- Seneca -- Creation Story -- Oenida -- The Origins of Man -- Maliseet -- The Legendary Tom Laporte -- Migmaq -- Three Stories -- Naskapi -- Umâyichîs -- Contributors
Storytelling and singing continue to be a vital part of community life for Native peoples today. Voices from Four Directions gathers stories and songs from thirty-one Native groups in North America-including the Iñupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East. Vivid stories of cosmological origins and transformation, historical events remembered and retold, as well as legendary fables can be found in these pages. Well-known Trickster figures like Raven, Rabbit, and Coyote figure prominently in several tales as do heroes of local fame such as Tom Laporte of the Maliseets. The stories and songs entertain, instruct, and recall rich legacies as well as obligations. Many are retellings and reinventions of classic narratives, while others are more recent creations