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 Kalapuya Prophecy | 337 |
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Achí American animals Armand Schwerner buffalo ceremony Chief Five-Rains clothes cloud coming Coyote Crow dance deer dream eagle earth eaters English version Eskimo Event face father flowers four Frances Densmore ganeewa ganeewaha gods Grandfathers head heart héya hmm hmm hmm Hobtoh Rabinal-Rahaual HORSE SONG howinouse baheegwing howinow hunting Indian Jaguars Jerome Rothenberg Kachina Village Knud Rasmussen language listen live look Luiseño MAGIC WORDS María Sabina Maya Mayan moon mother mountains narrative Navajo night Number painted Peyote PEYOTE SONG poem poetry poets Popol Vuh Quiché Quiché-Achí Reprinted by permission sacred said'nth'house said'nth'house said'nth'house shaman sick singing sitting SONG PICTURE soul SOURCE spirit Star story Swampy Cree tell things thought translation tree tribal Tsimshian vision W. S. Merwin walk said'nth'house Wishing Bone wnn baheegwing woman Yeha YOHOHEYHEYEYHEYHAHYEYEYHAHHEH young Zuni