| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 222 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; 1 The Coming of the Nokfilaki; 2 The Contest between the Four-footeds and the Flyers; 3 More Animal Stories; 4 Rabbit; 5 Master of Breath and the Great Ones; 6 Sun, CornWoman, Lucky Hunter, and the Twosome; 7 Horned Serpent, the Clans, and the Origin of Bears; 8 The Vengeance of Animals, the Friendship of Plants, and the Anger of the Sun; 9 Divination, Sorcery, and Witches; 10 Sun Chief and SunWoman; 11 Tastanáke and the Ball Game; 12 Everyday Life Is Their Book; 13 Posketa; 14 The Last Conversation; A Note on the Spelling of CreekWords; Sources; Illustration Credits |
| Summary |
Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who travelled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, this book attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Domingo de la Anunciación, Father, 1510 or 1511-1591 -- Fiction
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Luna y Arellano, Tristán de, 1510-1573 -- Fiction
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Domingo de la Anunciación, Father, 1510 or 1511-1591 fast |
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Luna y Arellano, Tristán de, 1510-1573 fast |
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Spaniards -- Southern States -- Fiction
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Discoveries in geography -- Fiction
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Mississippian culture -- Fiction
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Coosa Indians -- Fiction
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Explorers -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Historical.
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FICTION -- Biographical.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Coosa Indians
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Discoveries in geography
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Explorers
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Mississippian culture
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Spaniards
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Southern States -- Fiction
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807898949 |
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0807898945 |
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9781469605258 |
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1469605252 |
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