In the trail of the wind
Subtitle: American Indian poems and ritual orations
By: edited by John Bierhorst
Edition: Rev. Sunburst ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780374436094
Subjects: Translations into English; Indian poetry
Description: An anthology of native American poetry from both North and South America.
Notes: "A Sunburst book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-202).
Table of contents: title: Then he descended - Song of creation - This newly created world - Thus it is told - He wove the strands of our life - First man was the first to emerge - Emergence song - They stooped over and came out - Upward going! - The Cussitaws come east - Over the water - Now we come southwards - It was the wind - Breathe on him - The wind blows from the sea - Wind song - That wind - THe dreamer rides the whirlwind - Beseeching the breath - Prayer; Inca - Prayer; Aztec - Prayer; Crow - Prayer; Sioux - Prayer; Auaucanian - Prayer; Navajo - Prayer; Winnebego - Prayer; Quiche - Prayer; Iroquois - With refoicing mouth - Aqalani! - Grandeur of Mexico - Song - The face of my mountains - That mountain far away - House blessing - The lands around my dwelling - Song - Black-tailed deer song - Song of the hunter - Song of the deer - Song of the fallen deer - War songs - War song - Song of reproach - Song of encouragement - Hymn - How the days will be - The taking of life brings serious thoughts - Magic formula to make an enemy peaceful - Behold, this pipe - I pass the pipe - To a woman loved - Love song - Love song - I cannot forget you - Magic formula to fix a bride's affection - Love song - Song of a Chief's daughter - A woman's complaint - A husband's song - Love song of a young man - Friendship - The being without a face - Not forever on earth - The moon and the year - Charms - Spirits - We spirits dance - Death of a sister - Wailing song - Magic formula to destroy life - Death of a son - You and I shall go - And yet the earth remains unchanged - Supplication to the rain god and the spirit god - Cover my earth mother - In the night - Offering - My breath became - Butterfly song - Songs of birds - Words spoken by a mother to her newborn son - As she cuts the umbilical cord - Presenting an infant to the sun - Songs in the garden of the house god - Song - The great sea - Dream song; Wintu - Dream song; Chippewa - The song of a dream - At night may I roam - Dream song; Papago - Dream song; Chippewa - Is this real.; title: In the great night - Dream song; Wintu - Song - Omen - Prophecy; Iroquois - Prophecy; Maya - Who are they? - I gave them fruits - The weeping spreads - They came from the east - The beginning of sickness - Plague - Magic formula against disease - The surrender speech of Cuauhtemoc - The surrender speech of Chief Joseph - On the death of Atahualpa - The ghost of caupolican - Curse on people that wish on ill - We are living humbly - At the wood's edge - Requickening - Magic formula - Song - The day has risen - There! - Come all! - They shall not wither - They will appear - You shall live - Song of the ghost dance; Cheyenne - Songs of the ghost dance; Paiute - Songs of the ghost dance; Comanche.