Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Kimball, Geoffrey D., 1954-

Title Koasati traditional narratives : Kowassâa:ti incokfa:lihilkâa / translated by Geoffrey D. Kimball ; with the assistance of Bel Abbey, Martha John, and Sam Thompson
Published Lincoln : Published by the University of Nebraska Press ; Bloomington : in association with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, ©2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.
Contents Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Illustrations ; The Narrators ; Preface; Part One: Mythological Narratives; Chapter 1: Rabbit Stories; Rabbit Steals Fire ; Rabbit Tricks Great-One-Who-Eats-Human-Beings ; Rabbit Switches Dung with Great-One-Who-Eats-Human-Beings ; Rabbit and Great-one-Who-Eats-Human-Beings Have a Dung Contest ; Rabbit Tricks Great-One-Who-Eats-Human-Beings Overseas ; Rabbit and Box Turtle Run a Race ; How Rabbit Made the Water Run Crooked ; Rabbit and Deer Swap Feet ; The Bungling Host ; Vulture ""Cures"" Rabbit ; Chapter 2: Origin Tales
The Origin of the Koasati The Origin of the Crow ; The Origin of the Stars in the Sword and Belt of Orion ; The Origin of the Pleiades ; The Thunderer and the Man ; The Origin of Deer ; The Origin of Illness ; Corn Woman ; The Origin of Corn ; How Opossum Got a Bare Tail ; Turkey and Owl Swap Calls ; The Two Winds ; The Origin of Deciduous Trees (First Version) ; The Origin of Deciduous Trees (Second Version) ; How Bat Received his Wings ; Chapter 3: Monster Stories; The Obstacle Flight ; Eater-of-the-Living ; The Great Lizard ; The Great Lizard ; The Clawed Witches
Chapter 4: Animal StoriesA Man Switches Lives with Vulture ; The Orphan and the Bear ; The Bear-Kidnapped Child ; The Traveling Orphan ; Peregrine Falcon and Great Horned Owl ; Wolf and Box Turtle Run a Race ; Great Blue Heron and Hummingbird Race ; Barred Owl and Mouse ; The Contest of Heat and Cold ; The Contest of the Elf, Human, Panther, and Wildcat ; Bear is Tricked by Jay ; Chapter 5: Medicine Origin Tales; Bear Medicine ; Chapter 6: Christian Tales; Adam and Eve ; The Origin of the Races ; How Far is it to Hell? ; Part Two: Semihistorical Narratives ; Chapter 7: Encounter Stories
The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans (First Version) The First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans (Second Version) ; The Origin of the Name ""Koasati"" ; The Origin of Black People ; Chapter 8: War Stories; The Attack of the Tonkawa Cannibals ; Comanche Horse-Stealing Raids ; Outwitting the Comanche ; The Grandfathers' Revenge ; Rescuing The Kidnapped Girl ; Chapter 9: Other Semihistorical Stories; The Drought ; The Drowned Village (First Version) ; The Drowned Village (Second Version) ; The Boy and the Pygmy Rattlesnake ; How a Man Lost his Breechcloth to a Bull
Appendix 1: Linguistically Analyzed TextsCorn Woman ; The Great Lizard ; Barred Owl and Mouse ; The Boy and the Pygmy Rattlesnake ; How a Man Lost his Breechcloth to a bull ; Appendix 2: Transcriptions of Swanton's Texts; The Great Lizard ; Corn Woman ; References
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Koasati Indians -- Folklore
Tales -- Southern States
Koasati language -- Texts
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Koasati Indians
Koasati language
Tales
Southern States
Genre/Form Folklore
Texts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803230408
0803230400