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A listening wind : native literature from the Southeast / edited and with an introduction by Marcia Haag.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian mythology--Southern States.
- Indian mythology.
- Tales--Southern States.
- Tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "This collection of stories from several different tribal traditions in the American Southeast includes introductory essays showing how they fit into Native American religious and philosophical systems."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHOCTAW
- Mississippi Choctaw Oral Literature
- CREATION MYTHS
- The Choctaw Creation Legend
- Creation of Three Races
- SHUKHA ANUMPA
- Why Terrapins Never Get Fat
- The Dog Who Spoke Choctaw
- Running Water
- The Man and the Turkey
- SUPERNATURAL LEGENDS AND ENCOUNTERS
- The Little Man
- Pa̜š Falaya (Long Hair)
- PROPHECIES
- Prophecy of New Inventions and Lost Traditions
- Prophecy of Cars and Changing Values
- The Third Removal
- WHERE ORAL TRADITION AND LITERACY COLLIDE
- James L. McDonald's Spectre Essay of 1830
- Letter to Peter Pitchlynn
- MODERN OKLAHOMA CHOCTAW STORIES
- Modern Oklahoma Choctaw Stories
- Boarding School Runaways
- How I Almost Killed a Hog by Scaring It
- Aiisht Ahollo (The Miracle)
- Neva the Hunter
- MUSKOGEE (CREEK)
- Muskogee (Creek) Literature
- TRADITIONAL TALES
- The Story of Corn (Vce Nak-onvkuce)
- The Boy Who Turned into a Snake
- Rabbit Steals Fire
- Girl Abducted by Lion
- STORIES OF REAL PEOPLE
- Autobiography of James Hill
- TRADITIONAL SONG
- Estvmvn Estomen Follatskis (Wherever, However You Are)
- CHICKASAW
- Chickasaw Oral Literature
- CHIKASHSHA NAAIKBIˈ ANOˍLIˈ : CREATION- ORIGIN STORIES
- Chikashsha Naaikbiˈ Anoˍliˈ (Chickasaw Creation Story)
- How the Day and Night Were Divided: Traditional
- SHIKONNOˈPAˈ : POSSUM STORIES
- Katihmit Loksiˈ Hakshopat Bosholli(Why Turtle Has a Cracked Shell)
- IKSAˈ NANNANOˍ LIˈ : CLAN STORIES
- Kowimilhlhaˈ Hattakat Lhoˍfaˈ Ittafama(Wildcat Man Meets the Bigfoot)
- CHOKOSHPAˈ NANNANOˍ LIˈ : HUMOR STORIES
- Fala Shiikiˈ Táwwaˈa or Falat Ibichchalaˈ Inkaniya(Crow and the Buzzard or Crow Loses His Nose)
- ORAL NARRATIVES POSE INTERPRETATIVE CHALLENGES.
- Interpretation Is a Tricky Business: Reviewing GlendaGalvan's Katihsht Ittish Oppoloˈat Okla Alhihaˈ Imalattook (How Poison Came to the Chickasaw and Choctaw, 2011)
- YUCHI
- Yuchi Stories
- MYTHICAL TIME STORIES
- The Red-Mouthed Lizard and the Hunters
- How the Yuchi Kill the Red-Mouthed Lizard
- Wind and Iron
- ANIMAL TALES
- The First Woman to Leave a Lazy Husband
- Rabbit and Turkeys
- STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
- Spirit Stories
- CHEROKEE
- Cherokee Literature
- GALGOGV'I: NEW AND OLD LIES
- The Rabbit and the Image
- Rabbit and Possum Look for Wives
- How the Possum Lost His Beautiful Tail
- Thunder and the Uk'ten'
- How the White Man Was Made
- ULVSGEDI: STORIES OF THE WONDROUS
- The Owl at the Window
- Crossing Safely
- Santeetlah Ghost Story
- The Little People and the Nunnehi
- The Spirit of an Ancestor
- KANOHEDA: PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY, AND MEMOIR
- The Language and the Fire
- A Cherokee Vision of Eloh': An Excerpt
- The Cherokee Migration Story
- The Trail of Tears
- Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (excerpt)
- Who Is Cherokee?
- Who Is Cherokee?: Federal Recognition, Culture, and Rhetorical Sovereignty
- KOASATI
- Koasati (Coushatta) Literature
- TRADITIONAL STORIES
- The Bear Hunter and the Alligator's Gift
- How the Owl Got Skinny Legs
- Getting Fire from the Bear
- MODERN STORIES AND MEMOIRS
- How We Survived Long Ago
- Hunting in the Olden Days, and Tomatoes
- Grandmother and the Nail
- Another Story about Grandmother and a Nail
- Grandmother and the Gift Card
- Grandmother and the Turtle
- On My Way to the Meeting (Ittanahkafa Aayaliis)
- SMALLER SOUTHEASTERN TRIBES
- Introduction to Atakapa, Catawba, and Houma Stories
- ATAKAPA- ISHAK
- Interpretation of the Creation Myth
- Otsitat, the One Who Sits Above All The Making of the Earth
- CATAWBA
- Interpretation of a Folktale.
- How the Chipmunk Got Its Stripes
- HOUMA
- Interpretation of Two Traditional Stories
- How Rabbit Lost His Tail
- How Turtle Broke His Shell
- Source Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780803295483
- 0803295480
- OCLC:
- 942885419
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