Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Astrov, Margot, 1908-

Description

1. xi, 366 pages; 18 cm

Subject

1. Indian literature > Translations into English
2. Folk literature, Indian > Translations into English
3. Indians of North America > Literary collections
4. 18.91 American Indian languages
5. Indians of North America
6. Indian literature
7. Folk literature, Indian
8. Indianentalen

Genre/Form

1. Literary collections.
2. Translations.
3. Translations (form)
4. Anthologies (form)
5. Prose (texts)
6. Poems (texts)
7. Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 20th century.

Contents

1. The power of the word -- The influence of Christianity on the aboriginal cultures of America -- Part I: From the northern woodlands, the basin area and the great plains -- Song sung over a dying person (Chippewa) -- Dream song (Chippewa) -- Love song (Chippewa) -- A woman's song (Chippewa) -- Love song (Chippewa) -- Prayer to the sun (Blackfoot) -- The buffalo rock (Northern Blackfoot) -- The origin of death (Coeur D'Alêne) -- Smohalla speaks (Nez Percé) -- The surrender speech of Chief Joseph (Nez Percé) -- Two morning speeches (Nez Percé) -- Cottontail boy and snowshoe rabbit (Nez Percé) -- Warrior song (Crow) -- The seven stars (Assiniboine) -- A prayer (Assiniboine) -- Prayer of a warrior (Assiniboine) -- Myth of creation (Osage) -- From the rite of vigil (Osage) -- The song of the maize (Osage) -- The weaver's lamentation (Osage) -- A warrior's song from the mourning rite (Osage) -- A warrior's song of defiance (Osage) -- The heavens are speaking (Pawnee) -- The corn spirit (Skidi Pawnee) -- War song (Pawnee) -- The poor boy and the mud ponies (Pawnee) -- Spirit land (Pawnee) -- Coyote and the origin of death (Caddo) -- The request for supernatural help (Teton Sioux) -- Two dream songs of Siyáká' (Teton Sioux) -- Opening prayer of the sun dance (Teton Sioux) -- Prayer spoken during the sun dance (Teton Sioux) -- Two songs of encouragement (Teton Sioux) -- Song of a man who received a vision (Teton Sioux) -- Song of failure (Teton Sioux) -- Last song of Sitting Bull (Teton Sioux) -- Ohiyesa remembers the past (Sioux) -- A woman joins her lover in death (Dakota) -- A song of the Heyoka ceremony (Dakota) -- Warrior song of the Hethúshka society (Omaha) -- Warrior song (Omaha) -- Tribal prayer (Omaha) -- Farewell, my nation! Farewell, Black Hawk! -- Black Hawk's dedication to General Atkinson -- A sequence of songs of the ghost dance religion -- The man who was in search of the manitous (Fox) -- The man who reproached the manitous (Fox) -- A speech to the dead (Fox) -- Lamentation (Fox) -- Speech of the Owl (Fox) -- The story of my ancestor Weshgishega (Winnebago) -- A prayer (Winnebago) -- The Seneca chief Red Jacket addresses a missionary -- From the big house ceremony (Delaware) -- Lamentation (Iriquois) -- Part II: From the southeast -- Formula to attract affections (Cherokee) -- Formula to destroy life (Cherokee) -- Origin of the Pleiades and the pine (Cherokee) -- Part III: From the deserts of the southwest -- The war god's horse song (Navajo) -- A prayer of the night chant (Navajo) -- Song of the black bear (Navajo) -- Birth of white shell woman (Navajo) -- Rain song (Pima) -- War song (Papago) -- Death song (Papago) -- Ceremonial sun song (Papago) -- Two rain songs (Papago) -- From the autobiography of a Papago woman -- Song to pull down the clouds (Papago) -- A prayer (Havasupai) -- The power that failed (Chiricahua) -- Songs of maturation (Chiricahua) -- Two love songs (Chiricahua) -- Prayer after singing Gahé songs (Chiricahua) -- The mountain spirits and the old woman (Chiricahua) -- Songs of the masked dancers (Apache) -- Song of the gotal ceremony (Mescalero Apache) -- Part IV: From the Pueblos -- Song of the sky loom (Tewa) -- That mountain far away (Tewa) -- The willows by the waterside (Tewa) -- The origin of death (Cochiti) -- Songs of the departing spirit (Santo Domingo) -- Song of a child's spirit (Santo Domingo) -- A katcina song (Zuñi) -- Prayer spoken while presenting an infant to the sun (Zuñi) -- The growth of the corn (Zuñi) -- A woman mourns her husband (Zuñi) -- Prayer to the ancients after harvesting (Zuni) Creation myth (Zuñi) -- Rain song (Sia) -- The return to the old gods (Hopi) -- Part V: From California -- A Paiute autobiography -- Coyote and death (Wintu) -- Song of the spirit (Luiseño) -- The creation myth (Luiseño) -- Curing song (Yuma) -- A medicine man tells of his curing power (Yuma) -- The creator, the snake and the rabbit (Maricopa) -- Why humans sing for their sick and their dead (Maricopa) -- A prayer (Yokuts, California) -- Gudatrugakwitl and the creation (Wishosk) -- Part VI: From the northwest -- Medicine formula (Takelma, Oregon) -- Love song (Nootka) -- Song to bring fair weather (Nootka) -- Plaint against the fog (Nootka) -- Love song of the dead (Kwakiutl) -- Prayer to the young cedar (Kwakiutl) -- Parting song (Kwakiutl) -- Prayer of a man who found a dead killer whale (Kwakiutl) -- Prayer of a mother whose child died (Kwakiutl) -- The image that came to life (Tlingit) -- Three songs from the northwest (Tlingit) -- Speeches delivered at a feast for the dead (Tlingit) -- Part VII: From the far north -- Improvised song of joy (Iglulik Eskimo) -- From the childhood memories of the Eskimo woman Tokomaq -- Shamans and their training (Caribou Eskimo) -- The land of heaven (Caribou Eskimo) -- Ulivfak's song of the Caribou (Caribou Eskimo) -- Dance song (Copper Eskimo) -- Utitiáq's song (Cumberland Sound Eskimo) -- Part VIII: From Mexico -- Prayer to the god Titlacaoan (Aztec) -- Lamentation (Aztec) -- A song of exhortation (Aztec) -- A song by Nezahualcoyotl (Aztec) -- Love song (Aztec) -- About the education of the priests in Mexico -- Noéh, the story of the biblical flood (Zapotec) -- The eagle and the moon goddess (Cora) -- The creation (Uitoto) -- Part IX: From Central America -- A Maya prophecy (Yucatán) -- Three fragments from the book of Chilam Balam Chumayel (Maya) -- Prayer before preparing milpa (Maya) -- A letter by Montejo Xiu (Maya) -- Part X: From Peru -- Supplication to the creator god (Inca) -- Love song from the Andes (Inca) -- Peruvian dance song (Ayacucho).

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 345-359.