Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas'This book represents a major effort to bring Amerindian poetry to the reader in such a way that the total poetry, the dance, the vowel changes, the pauses, the movement, the interaction between speaker and audience is made evident...' -John Demos, Library Journal |
Contents
A Poem in Seventeen Parts Seneca | 4 |
A FIRST SERVICE | 39 |
A THIRD SERVICE | 209 |
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