Coming to light : contemporary translations of the native literatures of North America

Book 1994

New translations of some 50 Native American stories. The subjects include the Monster Slayer of the Navajo, the Fox of the Atsugewi, Nanabush of the Ojibwe, and Coyote, the trickster, of the Kalapuya.

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ISBN:

9780679418160
0679418164

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xlvi, 801 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Two Stories from Tikigaq [Inupiaq] / Tom Lowenstein and Tukummiq
Mary Kokrak: Five Brothers and Their Younger Sister [Yupik] / Anthony C. Woodbury and Leo Moses
Two Tellings of the Story of Uterneq: "The Woman Who Returned from the Dead" [Yupik] / Phyllis Morrow and Elsie Mather
The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals [Yupik] / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade
"The Moon's Sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts" [Aleut] / Knut Bergsland
The One Who Kicked His Grandmother's Head Along [Koyukon] / Eliza Jones and Catherine Attla
"Raven" and "Fog Woman" [Denaina] / Antone Evan and Jane McGary
Six Selections from Peter Kalifornsky's A Denaina Legacy [Denaina] / James Kari
The Girl Who Married the Bear [Tagish/Tlingit] / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns and Dora Austin Wedge
How the World Began [Tagish/Tlingit] / Julie Cruikshank and Angela Sidney

LCCN:

94013457

Control Number:

53178

Other Authors:

Swann, Brian

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