Native American verbal art : texts and contexts / William M. Clements.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1996.Description: viii, 252 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 0816516596
- 9780816516599
- 0816516588
- 9780816516582
- Indian literature -- Translating -- North America -- History and criticism
- Indians of North America -- Languages -- Translating
- Indians of North America -- Languages -- Texts
- North America -- Intellectual life
- Indian literature Translating History and criticism North America
- Indians of North America Languages Texts
- Indians of North America Languages Translating
- North America Intellectual life
- PM218 .C54 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-241) and index.
"Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art.