Coming to light
Subtitle: contemporary translations of the native literatures of North America
By: edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.
Contributors: Swann, Brian.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 801
ISBN-13: 9780679743583
Subjects: Indian literature -- North America -- Translations into English; Folk literature, Indian -- North America -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-783) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alaska, Yukon, and the Subarctic. Two stories from Tikiġaq / Tom Lowenstein and Tukummiq; title: Mary Kokrak : five brothers and their younger sister / Anthony C. Woodbury and Leo Moses; title: Two tellings of the story of Uterneq : "The woman who returned from the dead" / Phyllis Morrow and Elsie Mather; title: The boy who went to live with the seals / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade; title: "The moon's sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts" / Knut Bergsland; title: The one who kicked his grandmother's head along / Eliza Jones and Catherine Attla; title: "Raven" and "Fog woman" / Antone Evan and Jane McGary; title: Six selections from Peter Kalifornsky's A Dena'ina legacy / James Kari; title: The girl who married the bear / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge; title: How the world began / Julie Cruikshank and Angela Sidney; title: "Glacier Bay history" told by Amy Marvin and "Speech for the removal of grief" delivered by Jessie Dalton / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer; title: Dunne-za stories / Robin Ridington; title: Mistacayawāsis, big belly child / Robert Brightman, Angelique Linklater, and Henry Linklater; title: Wolverine : an Innu trickster / Lawrence Millman; title: The north Pacific coast. John Sky's "One they gave away" / Robert Bringhurst; title: Night hunter and day hunter / Judith Berman; title: The sun's myth ; Coyote, master of death, true to life ; Seal and her younger brother lived there / Dell Hymes; title: Great Basin and plateau. Hilda Austin's telling of "QwíqwAq́wAt́ [the smiling one] : a traditional Nłe?képmx [Salishan people] legend" / Steven M. Egesdal and M. Terry Thompson; title: Blue Jay and his brother-in-law Wolf / Anthony Mattina; title: Fish Hawk's raid against the Sioux / Jarold Ramsey; title: Poetry songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance / Judith Vander; title: The plains. Three Skiri Pawnee stories / Douglas Parks; title: Two roads to leadership : grandmother's boy and last-born brother / Julian Rice; title: Wilderness mentors / Elaine A. Jahner; title: Wakinyan and Wakinyan Wicaktepi / Calvin W. Fast Wolf; title: The eastern woodlands. Nanabush stories from the Ojibwe / Ridie Wilson Ghezzi; title: Two Tuscarora legends / Blair A. Rudes; title: The Iroquoian thanksgiving address / Michael K. Foster; title: Tales of the Delaware trickster / John Bierhorst; title: The Indian devil, mischief-maker / David A. Francis and Robert M. Leavitt; title: Running the deer / Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina; title: Pima Oriole songs / Donald Bahr and Vincent Joseph; title: Ethnopoetic retranslation of a Zuni ritual song sequence / M. Jane Young; title: Because he made marks on paper, the soldiers came / Dennis Tedlock; title: Coyote, skunk, and the prairie dogs / Barre Toelken; title: Ma'ii Jooldloshí Hane' : stories about Coyote, the one who trots / Timothy Benally Sr.; title: Singing up the mountain / Paul G. Zolbrod; title: Enemy slayer's horse song / David P. McAllester; title: Joseph Hoffman's "The birth of he triumphs over evils" : a Western Apache origin story / Keith H. Basso and Nashley Tessay Sr.; title: The boy who went in search of his father / Ekkehart Malotki; title: Two Hopi songpoems / David Leedom Shaul; title: The farewell song / Leanne Hinton; title: Two Koasati traditional narratives / Geoffrey Kimball; title: California. Two stories from the Yana / Herbert W. Luthin; title: Silver-Gray Fox creates another world / Darryl Babe Wilson; title: Two Maidu myths / William Shipley; title: Myth, music, and magic : Nettie Reuben's Karuk love medicine / William Bright.