CONTENTS
Preface
COLONIAL PERIOD: TO 1700
2 Native American Culture and Traditions
5 The Europeans Arrive
8 New World Cultures
11 New World Literatures
Native American Oral Literatures
19 Native American Oral Narrative
22 Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni)
36 Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence
of the People (Navajo)
49 Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)
51 We Origin of Stories (Seneca)
54 iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (lroquois)
57 Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Christine Dunham, Oglala Sioux)
59 leaven and Marriage (Tlingit)
64 The Bungling Host (Hitchiti)
65 Creation of the Whites (Yuchi)
66 Native American Oral Poetry
69 Zuni Poetry
69 Sayatasha's Night Chant
89 Aztec Poetry
89 The Singer's Art
90 Two Songs
91 Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan)
92 Inuit Poetry
92 Song (Copper Eskimo)
93 Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo)
93 Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo)
94 Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo)
95 My Breath (Orpingnlik, Netsilik Eskimo)