Author: Paul G. Zolbrod
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826325033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
Diné Bahane'
Author: Paul G. Zolbrod
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826325033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826325033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.
Navaho Indian Myths
Author: Aileen O’Bryan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Rich compilation of Navaho origin and creation myths, recorded directly from a tribal elder: "The Creation of the Sun and Moon," "The Maiden who Became a Bear," and many more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486142094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Rich compilation of Navaho origin and creation myths, recorded directly from a tribal elder: "The Creation of the Sun and Moon," "The Maiden who Became a Bear," and many more.
The Dîné: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians
Author: Aileen O'Bryan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Navaho Legends
Author: Washington Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Meditations with the Navajo
Author: Gerald Hausman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591438896
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo. • Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world. • Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations. • Includes meditations following each story or poem. Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live, and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage, homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand at the moment.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1591438896
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the spiritual world of the Navajo. • Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of harmony and balance in the world. • Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for generations. • Includes meditations following each story or poem. Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine (literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live, and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage, homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand at the moment.
Diné
Author: Peter Iverson
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826327154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826327154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Author: Edward Morris Opler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614576X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048614576X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
The Navajo Hunter Tradition
Author: Karl W. Luckert
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816538972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile. Part 1: The Navajo Tradition, Perspectives and History Part II: Navajo Hunter Mythology A Collection of Texts Part III: The Navajo Hunter Tradition: An Interpretation
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816538972
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile. Part 1: The Navajo Tradition, Perspectives and History Part II: Navajo Hunter Mythology A Collection of Texts Part III: The Navajo Hunter Tradition: An Interpretation
Mythology and Values
Author: Katherine Spencer Halpern
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navajo Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Turquoise Boy
Author: Terri Cohlene
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439635882
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439635882
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.