Winged Serpent: American Indian Prose and PoetryMargot Astrov |
Contents
CHAPTER IThe Power of the Word | 19 |
CHAPTER IIThe Influence of Christianity on | 53 |
Song sung over a dying person Chippewa | 75 |
Two morning speeches Nez Percé | 88 |
The song of the maize Osage | 100 |
Coyote and the origin of death Caddo | 117 |
A woman joins her lover in death Dakota | 130 |
A sequence of songs of the Ghost Dance religion | 143 |
A Katcina song Zuñi | 229 |
A woman mourns her husband Zuñi | 235 |
Rain song Sia | 243 |
A Paiute autobiography | 257 |
The Creation myth Luiseño | 263 |
Why humans sing for their sick and their dead | 270 |
Medicine Formula Takelma Oregon | 277 |
Prayer of a man who found a dead killer | 283 |
The story of My Ancestor Weshgishega Winnebago | 156 |
From the Big House Ceremony Delaware | 166 |
Formula to attract affections Cherokee | 175 |
The War Gods horse song Navajo | 183 |
Birth of White Shell Woman Navajo | 189 |
Dream song of a woman Papago | 195 |
Song to pull down the clouds Papago | 202 |
Two love songs Chiricahua | 208 |
Song of the Gotal Ceremony Mescalero Apache | 216 |
That mountain far away Tewa | 222 |
The willows by the waterside Tewa | 223 |
Two mourning songs from the Northwest Tlingit | 289 |
Improvised song of joy Iglulik Eskimo | 295 |
The land of heaven Caribou Eskimo | 301 |
Prayer to the God Titlacaoan Aztec | 309 |
Love song Aztec | 316 |
The Eagle and the Moon Goddess Cora | 323 |
A Maya prophecy Yucatán | 329 |
Supplication to the creator god Inca | 341 |
The Indian as author | 357 |
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