The Portable North American Indian Reader

This fine anthology covers not only the myths and tales of the American Indian but also material on their history and present-day writers.

Introduction

1

(20)

I MYTHS AND TALES

Editor's Note

21

(4)

Penobscot

25

(5)

Micmac

30

(6)

Iroquois

36

(50)

Cherokee

86

(20)

Winnebago

106

(19)

Sioux

125

(33)

Blackfeet

158

(17)

Navaho

175

(31)

Hopi

206

(7)

Tlingit

213

(12)

Nez Perce

225

(13)

II POETRY AND ORATORY

Editor's Note

235

(3)

Poems and Songs:

This Newly Created World (Winnebago)

238

(1)

Emergence Song (Pima)

238

(1)

War Song (Sioux)

239

(1)

Two Fragments (Dakota and Ojibwa)

239

(1)

Song (Ojibwa)

239

(1)

Magic Formula to Make an Enemy Peaceful (Navaho)

240

(1)

Spring Song (Ojibwa)

240

(1)

Offering (Zuni)

240

(1)

Is This Real (Pawnee)

241

(1)

Oratory:

Powhatan (Powhatan)

242

(1)

Canassatego (Iroquois)

243

(1)

Dragging Canoe (Cherokee)

244

(1)

Pachgantschilias (Delaware)

244

(1)

Tecumseh (Shawnee)

245

(2)

Sharitarish (Pawnee)

247

(2)

Speckled Snake (Creek)

249

(1)

Senachwine (Potawatomi)

250

(1)

Seattle (Dwamish)

251

(2)

Charlot (Flathead)

253

(1)

Sitting Bull (Sioux)

254

(2)

Plenty Coups (Crow)

256

(4)

III CULTURE CONTACT

Editor's Note

259

(1)

Explorations:

The Discovery and Conquest of New Spain

260

(31)

The Expedition of Lewis and Clark

291

(21)

Captivity Narratives:

The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson

312

(48)

John Tanner's Narrative of His Captivity

360

(18)

Acculturation:

The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian

378

(75)

Mountain Wolf Woman

453

(34)

IV IMAGE AND ANTI-IMAGE

Editor's Note

485

(2)

The Indian Convert

487

(1)

Philip Freneau

The Indian Student

488

(3)

The Indian Burying Ground

491

(2)

Tom Quick

493

(9)

Harold W. Thompson

The Disgraced Scalp Lock

502

(13)

Thomas Bangs Thorpe

The Confidence-Man

515

(13)

Herman Melville

The Conspiracy of Pontiac

528

(10)

Francis Parkman

Little Big Man

538

(18)

Thomas Berger

Custer's Last Stand

556

(2)

Paul Jenkins

Earth House Hold

558

(9)

Gary Snyder

Land of the Spotted Eagle

567

(11)

Luther Standing Bear

The Way to Rainy Mountain

578

(9)

N. Scott Momaday

We Talk, You Listen

587

(10)

Vine Deloria, Jr.

Surviving

597

(1)

James Welch

Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

597

(1)

In My Lifetime

598

(1)

Seven Arrows

599

(11)

Hyemeyohsts Storm

Four Songs of Life

610

(2)

Ray Young Bear

Morning-Talking Mother

612

(1)

Through Lifetime

613

(2)

Kaiser and the War

615

(11)

Simon Ortiz

Bibliography

626

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