Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction xix
7. Part One
8. 1. Creations and Origins 1
9. 2. Coyote and Friends: An Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage 25
10. 3. The Poetry and Drama of Healing: The Iroquoian Condolence Ritual and the Navajo Night Chant 47
11. Part Two
12. 4. From Mythic to Fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth 69
13. 5. "The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit," and the Ecological Imagination 81
14. 6. The Wife Who Goes Out like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives 96
15. 7. Uncursing the Misbegotten in a Tillamook Incest Story 115
16. 8. Genderic and Racial Appropriation in Victoria Howard's "The Honorable Milt 139
17. Part Three
18. 9. Simon Fraser's Canoe; or, Capsizing into Myth 159
19. 10. Fish-Hawk and Other Heroes 170
20. 11. Retroactive Prophecy in Western Indian Narrative 194
21. 12. The Bible in Western Indian Mythology 208
22. 13. Ti-Jean and the Seven-headed Dragon: Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore 222
23. 14. Francis La Flesche's "The Song of Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography 237
24. 15. Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing 252
25. Notes 267
26. Bibliography 311
27. Index 325