The Path on the Rainbow
An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America
Published on 10. October 2023
350 pages
979-8-88897-015-7 (ISBN)
Description
Perhaps the first authoritative collection of Indigenous verse, The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America brings together the poetical productions of Native tribes throughout the country, in hopes of adding the voice of the Indigenous peoples to the literary canon and history of the United States.
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George W. Cronyn (1888 - 1969) was an American writer and editor. He is known to have written at least one book of poetry, one play, as well as a book on communism and Peire Vidal. He complied two anthologies of Native American poetry, most notably, The Path on the Rainbow: An Anthology of Songs and Chants from the Indians of North America in 1918.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Early Moon
- Introduction
- Songs from the Eastern Woodlands
- The Parted Lovers
- Vengeance Song (Micmac)
- Iroquois Ritual of Fire and Darkness
- Fire-Fly Song (Ojibwa)
- Calling-One's-Own (Ojibwa)
- Ojibwa War Songs
- Sacred Midé Songs (Ojibwa)
- Songs of the Chippewa
- Memorial Ode (Iroquois)
- Songs from the Southeast
- Fragment from the Wallum-Olum or Chronicle of the Leni-Lenâpé (Delaware)
- Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees
- Songs from the Great Plains
- Hunting Songs (Dakota)
- The Fashioning of the Children (Osage)
- The Child is Introduced to the Cosmos at Birth
- Ritual Chant at the Preparation of the Sweat Lodge for the Sick (Omaha)
- Ritual Chant for the Sick
- Ritual of the Cosmic Forces
- Song of Scorn
- Songs of the Ghost-Dance Religion (Arapaho-Cheyenne-Comanche-Paiute-Sioux-Kiowa-Caddo)
- The Messiah Speaks
- Reincarnation
- Songs of Life Returning
- Creation
- Judgment
- Exhortation
- Songs from the Southwest
- Viracocha (Ancient Inca)
- War Songs (Zuñi)
- Prayer for Rain
- Rain Song of the Giant Society
- Invocation to the U'wannami (Sia)
- Magpie Song (Navajo)
- Songs in the Garden of the House God (Navajo)
- The Mountain Chant of the Navajo
- Protection Song
- The Town Crier Calls at Dawn to Announce the Feast (Pueblo)
- Song of the Horse (Navajo)
- Song of the Blue-Corn Dance (Zuñi)
- Pima Ritual Song Cycle
- Wars of the People
- Song of the Earth (Navajo)
- Hunting Song (Navajo)
- Song of the Rain Chant (Navajo)
- Song from the Mountain Chant (Navajo)
- Corn-Grinding Song (Zuni)
- Korosta Katzina Song (Hopi)
- He-Hea Katzina Song (Hopi)
- Songs from California
- Songs of Spirits (Wintu)
- Songs of Kumastamxo (Yuma)
- Songs from the Northwest Coast
- Prayers of the Tsimshian to Nexnóa
- Three Songs from the Haida
- Bear Song (Haida)
- Haida Cradle Songs
- Bilqula Death Song
- Song of Qaqatcguk
- Spell Song (Kwakiutl)
- Chinook Songs
- Songs from the Far North
- Songs for the Great Feast to the Dead
- Eskimo Songs
- Sednor and the Fulmar (Eskimo Ballad)
- Interpretations: Constance Lindsay Skinner
- Summer Dawn
- Song of the Search
- Song of Whip-Plaiting
- Song of the Young Mother
- Song of Basket-Weaving
- The Change-Song
- Song of the Full Catch
- Spring to the Earth-Witch
- Chief Capilano Greets his Namesake at Dawn
- The Wild Woman's Lullaby
- Indian Lover's Hymn
- Interpretations: Mary Austin
- The Song of the Hills (Yokut)
- Neither Spirit Nor Bird (Shoshone)
- Prayer to the Mountain Spirit (Navajo)
- Song for the Passing of Beautiful Women (Paiute)
- Song of a Passionate Lover (Yokut)
- The Heart's Friend (Shoshone)
- A Song in Time of Depression (Paiute)
- Interpretations: Frank Gordon
- Along the South Star Trail
- Sa-a Naraï
- Earth-Mother
- Feast of Wolves
- Lone-Dog unto the Delawares
- Interpretations: Alice Corbin Henderson
- Listening
- Buffalo Dance
- Where the Fight Was
- The Wind
- Courtship
- Parting
- Interpretations: Pauline Johnson
- The Lost Lagoon (Tekashionweke)
- The Song My Paddle Sings (Tekashionweke)
- Plem-Salia-Kwi (Autumn Dawn)
- Songs from the Hako A Pawnee Ceremony
- Prefatory Note
- Nature of the Ceremony
- The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony
- First Ritual
- Second Ritual
- Third Ritual
- Fourth Ritual
- The Hako Party Presented to the Powers
- Invocation to Tiráwa
- Fifth Ritual
- Sixth Ritual
- Seventh Ritual
- Eighth Ritual (First Day)
- Ninth Ritual (First Night)
- Tenth Ritual
- Eleventh Ritual
- Twelfth Ritual (Second Night)
- Fourteenth Ritual (Third Night)
- Fifteenth Ritual
- Sixteenth Ritual
- Sixteenth Ritual-Part II
- Seventeenth Ritual
- Eighteenth Ritual
- Nineteenth Ritual
- Twentieth Ritual
- Incidental Rituals
- Conclusion
- The Indian as a Poet
- A Note About the Author
- A Note from the Publisher
