Surviving through the days
Subtitle: translations of Native California stories and songs : a California Indian reader
By: edited by Herbert W. Luthin.
Contributors: Luthin, Herbert W., 1954-
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- California -- Music; Indian mythology -- California
Genres: Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Song from the myth "Kukumat became sick" (Quechan); title: General introduction; title: Making texts, reading translations; title: "Creation songs" (Cupeño); title: Kwaw labors to form a world (Atsugewi, 1996); title: Northwestern California; title: Doctor dance song (Yurok); title: Test-ch'as (The tidal wave) (Tolowa, 1985); title: "The young man from Serper" and other stories (Yurok, 1951, 1985-1988); title: Coyote and Old Woman Bullhead (Karuk, circa 1930); title: The devil who died laughing (Karuk, 1950); title: "The boy who grew up at Ta'k'imiłding" and other stories (Hupa, 1963-1964); title: The Bear Girl (Chimariko, 1921); title: North-Central California; title: Spell said by a girl desirous of getting a husband (Northern Yana); title: How my father found the deer (Achumawi, 1970); title: Naponoha (Cocoon Man) (Atsugewi, 1931); title: A story of lizard (Yahi, 1915); title: A selection of Wintu songs (Wintu, 1929-1931); title: Loon woman : He-who-is-made-beautiful, She-who-becomes-loon (Wintu, 1929); title: Four songs from Grace McKibbin (Wintu, circa 1982); title: How I became a dreamer (Nomlaki, 1935); title: Mad bat (Maidu, circa 1902); title: Creation (Eastern Pomo, 1930); title: The trials of Young Hawk (Southern Pomo, 1940); title: The woman who loved a snake (Cache Creek Pomo, 1988); title: The dead people's home (Lake Miwok, 1980); title: South-Central California; title: Excerpt from "The Čiq'neq'š myth" (Ventureño Chumash); title: Two stories from the Central Valley; title: "Visit to the land of the dead" (Chawchila Yokuts, 1931); title: "Condor steals falcon's wife" (Yowlumni Yokuts, 1930); title: The contest between men and women (Tübatulabal, circa 1932); title: The Dog Girl (Ineseño Chumash, 1913); title: Southern California; title: Excerpt from an account of "The soul" (Quechan); title: The creation (Serrano, 1963); title: A harvest of songs from Villiana Calac Hyde (Luiseño, 1988-1992); title: From "The life of Hawk Feather" : the bear episodes (Cupeño, 1962, 1920); title: In the desert with Hipahipa (Mojave, 1902); title: An account of origins (Quechan (Yuma), 1908); title: "When I have donned my crest of stars" (Kiliwa); title: A brief history of collection; title: "Women's brush dance song" (Luiseño); title: Notes on Native California oral literatures; title: Funeral speech (Quechan); title: Notes on Native California languages.