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Beautiful words = Kasuundze' kenaege' : the complete Ahtna poems / poems & translations by John Elvis Smelcer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smelcer, John E., 1963-
- Series:
- New odyssey series
- New odyssey series Beautiful words =
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ahtena Indians--Poetry.
- Ahtena Indians.
- Ahtena poetry--Translations into English.
- Ahtena poetry.
- Alaska--Poetry.
- Alaska.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (106 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A literary landmark, this bilingual collection of poems represents the only literature of the Ahtna culture in existence. Ahtna is one of twenty indigenous languages of Alaska and had no written form until the last thirty years. Here John Smelcer renders these poems in his native tongue with English translations.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Complete Ahtna Poems
- The Indian Prophet
- The Poet
- Home
- What I Learned from the Stars
- Animal Spirits
- Zen Raven
- Mum Raven
- The Nature of Being
- A Sufficient Wisdom
- Happiness
- Song of the Rain
- Loonsong
- Raincatcher
- My Conversation with a Fox
- Talking Animals
- He Went the Wrong Way
- Prayer Singer
- Two Indians Interpret a Sign
- A Polar Bear Tries to Adapt (to Global Warming)
- September
- A Jealous Husband Dreams of Bears
- Squirrel Man
- Mourning Song for the Last Indian
- Morning Tea
- Sauna Stones
- Mourning Song
- Mountain Smoke
- Laughter
- Playing Hide-and-Seek with Raven
- On Feet of Clouds
- Creation Myth
- The Meaning of Life
- Raven's Trans-Species Love Song
- Smart as a Fox
- The Moose
- Muskrat Woman
- Medicine Man
- The Widower's Dance
- Wedding Night
- A Minor Correction
- When Raven Was Killed
- Indian Country
- Whiskey Drunk
- Moses
- Hunter's Luck
- Surviving Winter
- How Raven Became Black
- Near Gakona Village
- Falling Star
- Baptizing the Last Shaman
- Glacier Dance
- Evening at Fielding Lake
- Spring on the Yukon
- Soda Pop Song
- The End of Christmas
- A Strange White Man Heals My Broken Heart
- Beaver Story
- The Dandelion Blossom
- Anger Management
- The First Ever Ahtna Knock-Knock Joke
- Hunting Ground
- Beaver and Frog
- Raven and the Butterfly
- Best Intentions
- Supper Bell
- Owl and Mouse
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-61248-015-2
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