Chinnubbie and the owl : Muscogee (Creek) stories, orations, and oral traditions /
Though he died at the age of thirty-four, the Muscogee (Creek) poet, journalist, and humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was one of the most prolific and influential American Indian writers of his time. This volume of nine stories, five orations, and nine works of oral tradition is the first to col...
| Основен автор: | Posey, Alexander Lawrence, 1873-1908. |
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| Други автори: | Sivils, Matthew Wynn, 1971- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=127277 |
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Print version::
Chinnubbie and the owl. |
Съдържание:
- Stories. Introduction
- Chinnubbie and the owl
- Chinnubbie scalps the squaws
- Indian anecdotes
- Uncle Dick and Uncle Will
- Uncle Dick's sow
- "Jes bout a mid'lin', sah"
- Mose and Richard
- Two famous prophets
- A foxy old buck
- Orations. Introduction
- The Indian: what of him?
- Sequoyah
- Room at the top
- Col. McIntosh: a few words to his memory
- The Creek opening guns
- Muscogee (Creek) oral traditions. Introduction
- The origins of music according to the Creek medicine-men
- The 'possum and the skunk: or how the 'possum lost the hair off his tail
- A Creek fable
- Fable of the foolish young bear
- The devil's parodies
- A fable (January 31, 1902)
- A fable (February 7, 1902)
- A fable (February 14, 1902)
- Story by an Indian raconteur.