Ebook: Native American Poetry

This pioneering book was the first to recognize Native American oral verse as a vibrant part of North American literature. First published in 1918, its ancient and modern songs were translated by the era's leading scholars and poets. The depth of its authenticity is matched by the scope of its variety, which covers both personal and ceremonial life. All of North America's major tribes are represented here. Traditional poems from people of the Eastern Woodlands, the Southeast, the Great Plains, the Southwest, California, the Northwest Coast, and the Far North include songs of the Iroquois, Cherokee, Comanche, Navajo, Eskimo, and others. Celebrating life's joys and sorrows in both the spirit and the flesh, this collection includes work songs, game songs, songs of suffering and love, and songs of birth, death, battle, and vision.;Early moon / translated by Carl Sandburg -- Introduction / Mary Austin -- Songs from the eastern woodlands -- Abanaki songs / translated by John Reade -- Vengeance song (Micmac) / translated by Silas T. Rand -- Iroquois ritual / translated by Harriet Maxwell Converse -- Fire-fly song (Ojibwa) / translated by H.H. Schoolcraft -- Calling-one's-own (Ojibwa) / translated by Charles Fenno Hoffman -- Ojibwa war songs / translated by H.H. Schoolcraft -- Two Winnebago songs / translated by Natalie Curtis Burlin -- Sacred Midé songs (Ojibwa) / translated by W.J. Hoffman -- Songs of the Chippewa / translated by Frances Densmore -- Memorial ode (Iroquois) / translated by Mary Austin -- Songs from the Southeast -- The Wallum Olum (Delaware) / translated by Prof. D.G. Brinton -- Sacred formulas of the Cherokees / translated by James Mooney -- Songs from the Great Plains -- Hunting songs (Dakota) / translated by Stephen Return Riggs -- The fashioning of the children (Osage) / translated by J. Owen Dorsey -- Ritual chants of the Omaha / translated by Alice Fletcher -- Songs of the ghost-dance religion (Arapaho-Cheyenne-Comanche-Paiute-Sioux-Kiowa-Caddo) / translated by James Mooney -- Songs from the Southwest -- Viracocha (ancient Inca) / translated by Garcilasso de la Vega -- War songs (Zuñi) / translated by Matilda Coxe Stevenson -- Invocations for rain (Sia) / translated by Matilda Cox Stevenson -- Magpie song (Navajo) -- Songs in the garden of the house god (Navajo) / translated by Washington Matthews -- The mountain chant of the Navajo / translated by Washington Matthews -- The town crier calls at dawn (Pueblo) / translated by J.W. Fewkes -- Song of the horse (Navajo) / translated by Natalie Curtis Burlin -- Song of the blue-corn dance (Zuñi) / translated by Natalie Curtis Burlin -- Songs of the Pima / translated by Frank Russell -- Song of the earth (Navajo); Hunting song (Navajo); Song of the rain chant (Navajo); Song from the mountain chant (Navajo); Corn-grinding song (Zuñi); Korosta Katzina song (Hopi); He-hea katzina song (Hopi) / translated by Natalie Curtis Burlin -- Songs from California -- Songs of spirits (Wintu) / translated by Jeremiah Crutin -- Songs of Kumastamxo (Yuma) / translated by John Peabody Harrington -- Songs from the Northwest coast -- Prayers of the Tsimshian / translated by Prof. Franz Boas -- Three songs from the Haida / translated by Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Bear song (Haida) / translated by John R. Swanton -- Haida cradle songs / translated by John R. Swanton -- Bilqula death song / translated by Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Songs of the Tlingit / translated by John R. Swanton -- Spell song (Kwakiutl) / translated by Prof. Franz Boas -- Chinook songs / translated by Prof. Franz Boas -- Songs from the far north -- Songs for the Great Feast to the Dead / translated by Edward W. Nelson -- Eskimo songs / translated by Prof. Franz Boas -- Sednor and the Fulmar (Eskimo ballad) / translated by Prof. Franz Boas -- Interpretations -- Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Mary Austin -- Frank Gordon -- Alice Corbin Henderson -- Pauline Johnson -- Constance Lindsay Skinner -- Songs from the Hako -- A Pawnee ceremony / translated by Alice Fletcher.