Coming To Light
Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
Published on 29. December 2010
848 pages
978-0-307-75528-5 (ISBN)
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A richly diverse anthology of Native American literatures draws on the work of more than two hundred tribes across the United States and Canada and provides information on the historical and cultural contexts of the stories, songs, prayers, and orations.
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Brian Swann has published a number of collections of poetry and fiction, including Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. He teaches at the Cooper Union in New York City. Swann received his BA and MA from Queens' College at the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from Princeton University.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 - Alaska, Yukon, and the Subarctic
- Chapter 1 - Two Stories from Tikigaq
- Chapter 2 - Mary Kokrak: Five Brothers and Their Younger Sister
- Chapter 3 - Two Tellings of the Story of Uterneq: "The Woman Who Returned from the Dead"
- Chapter 4 - The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals
- Chapter 5 - "The Moon's Sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts"
- Chapter 6 - The One Who Kicked His Grandmother's Head Along
- Chapter 7 - "Raven" and "Fog Woman"
- Chapter 8 - Six Selections from Peter Kalifornsky's
- Chapter 9 - The Girl Who Married the Bear
- Chapter 10 - How the World Began
- Chapter 11 - "Glacier Bay History" told by Amy Marvin and "Speech for the Removal of Grief delivered by Jessie Dalton
- Chapter 12 - Dunne-za Stories
- Chapter 13 - Mistacayawasis, Big Belly Child
- Chapter 14 - Wolverine: An Innu Trickster
- Part 2 - The North Pacific Coast
- Chapter 15 - John Sky's "One They Gave Away"
- Chapter 16 - Night Hunter and Day Hunter
- Chapter 17 - The Sun's Myth
- Chapter 18 - Coyote, Master of Death, True to Life
- Chapter 19 - Seal and Her Younger Brother lived There
- Part 3 - Great Basin and Plateau
- Chapter 20 - Hilda Austin's Telling of a Traditional Ne? KÉpmx Legend"
- Chapter 21 - Blue Jay and His Brother-in-Law Wolf
- Chapter 22 - Fish Hawk's Raid Against the Sioux
- Chapter 23 - Poetry Songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance
- Part 4 - The Plains
- Chapter 24 - Three Skiri Pawnee Stories
- Chapter 25 - Two Roads to Leadership: Grandmother's Boy and Last-Born Brother
- Chapter 26 - Wilderness Mentors
- Chapter 27 - Wakinyan and Wakinyan Wicaktepi
- Part 5 - The Eastern Woodlands
- Chapter 28 - Nanabush Stories from the Ojibwe
- Chapter 29 - Two Tuscarora Legends
- Chapter 30 - The Iroquoian Thanksgiving Address
- Chapter 31 - Tales of the Delaware Trickster
- Chapter 32 - The Indian Devil, Mischief-Maker
- Part 6 - The Southwest and Southeast
- Chapter 33 - Running the Deer
- Chapter 34 - Pima Oriole Songs
- Chapter 35 - Ethnopoetic Retranslation of a Zuni Ritual Song Sequence
- Chapter 36 - Because He Made Marks on Paper, the Soldiers Came
- Chapter 37 - Coyote, Skunk, and the Prairie Dogs
- Chapter 38 - Ma'ii Jooldloshí Hane': Stories About Coyote, the One Who Trots
- Chapter 39 - Singing up the Mountain
- Chapter 40 - Enemy Slayer's Horse Song
- Chapter 41 - Joseph Hoffman's "The Birth of He Triumphs Over Evils" A Western Apache Origin Story
- Chapter 42 - The Boy Who Went in Search of His Father
- Chapter 43 - Two Hopi Songpoems
- Chapter 44 - The Farewell Song
- Chapter 45 - Two Koasati Traditional Narratives
- Part 7 - California
- Chapter 46 - Two Stories from the Yana
- Chapter 47 - Silver-Gray Fox Creates Another World
- Chapter 48 - Two Maidu Myths
- Chapter 49 - Myth, Music, and Magic: Nettie Reuben's Karuk Love Medicine
- Suggested Reading
- Contributors
- Copyright
