Title:
Coming to light : contemporary translations of the native literatures of North America
JLCTITLE245:
edited and with an introduction by Brian Swann.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, ©1994.
Physical Description:
xlvi, 801 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780679418160
9780679743583
Abstract:
New translations of some 50 Native American stories. The subjects include the Monster Slayer of the Navajo, the Fox of the Atsugewi, Nanabush of the Ojibwe, and Coyote, the trickster, of the Kalapuya.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Two Stories from Tikigaq [Inupiaq] / Tom Lowenstein and Tukummiq -- Mary Kokrak: Five Brothers and Their Younger Sister [Yupik] / Anthony C. Woodbury and Leo Moses -- Two Tellings of the Story of Uterneq: "The Woman Who Returned from the Dead" [Yupik] / Phyllis Morrow and Elsie Mather -- The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals [Yupik] / Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade -- "The Moon's Sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts" [Aleut] / Knut Bergsland -- The One Who Kicked His Grandmother's Head Along [Koyukon] / Eliza Jones and Catherine Attla -- "Raven" and "Fog Woman" [Denaina] / Antone Evan and Jane McGary -- Six Selections from Peter Kalifornsky's A Denaina Legacy [Denaina] / James Kari -- The Girl Who Married the Bear [Tagish/Tlingit] / Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns and Dora Austin Wedge -- How the World Began [Tagish/Tlingit] / Julie Cruikshank and Angela Sidney -- "Glacier Bay history" told by Amy Marvin and "Speech for the removal of grief" delivered by Jessie Dalton [Tlingit] / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- Dunne-za stories [Dunne-za] / Robin Ridington -- Mistacayawāsis, big belly child [Rock Cree] / Robert Brightman, Angelique Linklater and Henry Linklater -- Wolverine: an Innu trickster / Lawrence Millman.