Native American verbal art : texts and contexts /
Clements, William M.,1945-
Tucson : University of Arizona Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.
"Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.
Indian literature
Indians of North America
Indians of North America