Native American oral traditions
Subtitle: collaboration and interpretation
By: edited by Larry Evers and Barre Toelken ; foreword by John Miles Foley.
Contributors: Evers, Larry.; Toelken, Barre.
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Folklore; Oral tradition -- North America
Genres: Folklore.
Other titles: Oral tradition.
Description: A collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the study of Native oral traditions. Seven sets of intercultural authors present Native American oral texts with commentary, exploring dimensions of perspective, discovery, and meaning that emerge through collaborative translation and interpretation. The texts studied all come from the American West, but include a rich variety of material, since their tribal sources range from the Yupik in the Arctic to the Yaqui in the Sonoran Desert.
Notes: "Originally published, without the foreword, in Oral tradition 13, no. 1 (March 1998)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John Miles Foley; title: Collaboration in the translation and interpretation of Native American oral traditions / Larry Evers and Barre Toelken; title: "Like this it stays in your hands": collaboration and ethnopoetics / Felipe S. Molina and Larry Evers; title: Tracking "Yuwaan Gagéets": a Russian fairy tale in Tlingit oral tradition / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard L. Dauenhauer; title: Reading Martha Lamont's crow story today / Marya Moses and Toby C.S. Langen; title: Collaborative sociolinguistic research among the Tohono O'odham / Ofelia Zepeda and Jane Hill; title: "Wu-ches-erik (loon woman) and Ori-aswe (wildcat)" / Darryl Babe Wilson and Susan Brandenstein Park; title: Coyote and the strawberries: cultural drama and intercultural collaboration / George B. Wasson and Barre Toelken; title: "There are no more words to the story" / Elsie P. Mather and Phyllis Morrow.