Coyote Stories II
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Coyote Stories II
This volume includes 12 stories from languages of the American southwest presented in numbered parallel format. Each of the stories in this collection is accompanied by morphological analyses and grammatical notes. This format makes explicit the structure of the language and illustrates the richness of grammar as it is used in context. These texts will be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, typologists, and aficionados of oral narrative, as well as to speakers and learners of Native American languages.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Martha B. Kendall
Coyote and Pitch and Coyote Goes Courting (Takelma), Daythal Kendall
Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Humans (Karok), William Bright
How People Got Their Hands (Wichamni), Geoffrey Gamble
Two Chukchansi Coyote Stories (Yokuts), Howard Berman
Coyote and the “Cricket” (Wintu), Alice Schlichter
Coyote’s Knee Rock (Lake Miwok), Catherine A Callaghan
Coyote, Hawk, Raven and Skunk (Barbareño Chumash), Madison S. Beeler and Kenneth W. Whistler
The Seven Sisters (Serrano), Kenneth C. Hill
Wren and Coyote (Hopi), Evelyn Seumptewa with C.F. and F.M. Voegelin
The Birdpeople (Southern Paiute), Pamela Bunte
Coyote Woman and the Deer Children (Arizona Tewa), Paul V. Kroskrity and Dewey Healing
Coyote Marries His Daughter (Yavpe), Martha B. Kendall
References
Coyote and Pitch and Coyote Goes Courting (Takelma), Daythal Kendall
Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Humans (Karok), William Bright
How People Got Their Hands (Wichamni), Geoffrey Gamble
Two Chukchansi Coyote Stories (Yokuts), Howard Berman
Coyote and the “Cricket” (Wintu), Alice Schlichter
Coyote’s Knee Rock (Lake Miwok), Catherine A Callaghan
Coyote, Hawk, Raven and Skunk (Barbareño Chumash), Madison S. Beeler and Kenneth W. Whistler
The Seven Sisters (Serrano), Kenneth C. Hill
Wren and Coyote (Hopi), Evelyn Seumptewa with C.F. and F.M. Voegelin
The Birdpeople (Southern Paiute), Pamela Bunte
Coyote Woman and the Deer Children (Arizona Tewa), Paul V. Kroskrity and Dewey Healing
Coyote Marries His Daughter (Yavpe), Martha B. Kendall
References
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