Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature

Introduction / The editors --When artifacts speak, what can they tell us? / Paul G. Zolbrod --Anthologies and narrators / Dell Hymes --Heidegger and the Aztecs : the poetics of knowing in pre-Hispanic Nahuatl poetry / Willard Gingerich --Post-structuralism and oral literature / Arnold Krupat --North American Indian mythography : editing texts for the printed page / Anthony Mattina --Strategies in text and context : the hot pepper story / Joel Sherzer --Pima heaven songs / Donald Bahr --A note on translation and remarks on collaboration / Brian Swann --Bluejay and his sister / M. Dale Kinkade --Telling the tale : a performance analysis of a Hopi coyote story / Andrew Wiget --The natural history of old man coyote / William Bright. Life and death in the Navajo coyote tales / Barre Toelken --Wesucechak becomes a deer and steals language : an anecdotal linguistics concerning the Swampy Cree Trickster / Howard Norman --How the bird that speaks Lakota earned a name / Julian Rice --Traditional Osage naming ceremonies : entering the circle of being / Carter Revard --Walking the world of the Popol Vuh / Dennis Tedlock --Chief Seattle's speech(es) : American origins and European reception / Rudolph Kaiser --Sam Blowsnake's confessions : Crashing thunder and the history of American Indian autobiography / H. David Brumble III --On stereotypes / Duane Niatum --Bringing home the fact : tradition and continuity in the imagination / Paula Gunn Allen --Native American novels : homing in / William Bevis.