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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; 1 / Creations and Origins; 2 / Coyote and Friends: An Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage; 3 / The Poetry and Drama of Healing: The Iroquoian Condolence Ritual and the Navajo Night Chant; PART TWO; 4 / From Mythic to Fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth; 5 / ""The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit, "" and the Ecological Imagination; 6 / The Wife Who Goes Out like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives; 7 / Uncursing the Misbegotten in a Tillamook Incest Story |
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8 / Genderic and Racial Appropriation in Victoria Howard's ""The Honorable Milt""PART THREE; 9 / Simon Fraser's Canoe; or, Capsizing into Myth; 10 / Fish-Hawk and Other Heroes; 11 / Retroactive Prophecy in Western Indian Narrative; 12 / The Bible in Western Indian Mythology; 13 / Ti-Jean and the Seven-headed Dragon: Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore; 14 / Francis La Flesche's ""The Song of Flying Crow"" and the Limits of Ethnography; 15 / Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M |
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NO; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; X; Z |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Folk literature, Indian -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
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Indian literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism
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Folk literature, Indian
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Indian literature
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780295803500 |
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0295803509 |
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