The Arrow-maker

The Arrow-maker PDF Author: Mary Austin
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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From preface to first edition; by the author: "The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the public mind about as much as he does the high-nosed, wooden sign of a tobacco store, the fact being that, among the fifty-eight linguistic groups of American aboriginals, customs, traits, and beliefs differ as greatly as among Slavs and Sicilians. Their very speech appears not to be derived from any common stock. All that they really have of likeness is an average condition of primitiveness: they have traveled just so far toward an understanding of the world they live in, and no farther. It is this general limitation of knowledge which makes, in spite of the multiplication of tribal customs, a common attitude of mind which alone affords a basis of interpretation.".

The Arrow-maker

The Arrow-maker PDF Author: Mary Austin
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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From preface to first edition; by the author: "The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the public mind about as much as he does the high-nosed, wooden sign of a tobacco store, the fact being that, among the fifty-eight linguistic groups of American aboriginals, customs, traits, and beliefs differ as greatly as among Slavs and Sicilians. Their very speech appears not to be derived from any common stock. All that they really have of likeness is an average condition of primitiveness: they have traveled just so far toward an understanding of the world they live in, and no farther. It is this general limitation of knowledge which makes, in spite of the multiplication of tribal customs, a common attitude of mind which alone affords a basis of interpretation.".

The Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts

The Arrow-Maker: A Drama in Three Acts PDF Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 504062039X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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"The Arrow-Maker" by Mary Hunter Austin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Arrowmaker

Arrowmaker PDF Author: Roy F. Chandler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781885633187
Category : Perry County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The Arrow-maker

The Arrow-maker PDF Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the public mind about as much as he does the high-nosed, wooden sign of a tobacco store, the fact being that, among the fifty-eight linguistic groups of American aboriginals, customs, traits, and beliefs differ as greatly as among Slavs and Sicilians. Their very speech appears not to be derived from any common stock. All that they really have of likeness is an average condition of primitiveness: they have traveled just so far toward an understanding of the world they live in, and no farther. It is this general limitation of knowledge which makes, in spite of the multiplication of tribal customs, a common attitude of mind which alone affords a basis of interpretation.

The Arrow Maker

The Arrow Maker PDF Author: David Macleod Black
Publisher: ARC Publiitions
ISBN: 9781910345214
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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The Man Made of Words

The Man Made of Words PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312187422
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Collects the author's writings on sacred geography, Billy the Kid, actor Jay Silverheels, ecological ethics, Navajo place names, and old ways of knowing.

North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers

North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers PDF Author: Otis Tufton Mason
Publisher:
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Category : Bow and arrow
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Arrow to the Sun

Arrow to the Sun PDF Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812401028
Category : Folk literature, Pueblo
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth that explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.

The Way to Rainy Mountain

The Way to Rainy Mountain PDF Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 082632696X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth. "The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface

The Arrow Maker

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Languages : en
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