Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One
1) Creations and Origins
2) Coyote and Friends, an Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage
3) The Poetry and Drama of Healing, the Iroquoian “Condolence Ritual” and the Navajo “Night Chant”
Part Two
4) From Mythic to Fictive in the Nez Perce Orpheus Myth
5) “The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Sprit” and the Ecological Imagination
6) The Wife Who Goes out Like a Man, Comes Back as a hero: The art of two Oregon Indian narratives
7) Uncursing the Misbegotten in a Tillamook Incest Story
8) Genderic and Racial Appropriation in Victoria Howard’s “The Honorable Milt”
Part Three
9) Simon Fraser’s Canoe; or Capsizing into Myth
10) Fish-Hawk and Other Heroes
11) Retroactive Prophecy in Western Indian Narrative
12) The Bible in Western Indian Mythology
13) Ti-Jean and the Seven-headed Dragon, Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore
14) Francis La Flesche’s “The song of FLying Crow” and the Limits of Ethnography
15) Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing
Notes
Bibliography
Index