Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who travelled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, this book attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians...
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Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who travelled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, this book attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-214) and index
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Preliminaries; Contents; 1 The Coming of the Nokfilaki; 2 The Contest between the Four-footeds and the Flyers; 3 More Animal Stories; 4 Rabbit; 5 Master of Breath and the Great Ones; 6 Sun, CornWoman, Lucky Hunter, and the Twosome; 7 Horned Serpent, the Clans, and the Origin of Bears; 8 The Vengeance of Animals, the Friendship of Plants, and the Anger of the Sun; 9 Divination, Sorcery, and Witches; 10 Sun Chief and SunWoman; 11 Tastanáke and the Ball Game; 12 Everyday Life Is Their Book; 13 Posketa; 14 The Last Conversation; A Note on the Spelling of CreekWords; Sources; Illustration Credits
