CONTENTS
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| [PART ONE] | |
Indian Love Lyrics and Other Verse selected from the songs of the North American Indians. | |
| I SONGS OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP | |
| MY BARK CANOE | [21] |
| HER SHADOW | [22] |
| LOVER’S WOOING, OR BLANKET SONG | [23] |
| PAPAGO LOVE SONGS | [25] |
| LOVE SONG (DAKOTA) | [26] |
| THE BRIDE’S SONG | [27] |
| LONELY | [28] |
| WAR SONG | [29] |
| II SONGS OF GRIEF | |
| ONONDAGO HYMN | [30] |
| LAMENT OF A MAN FOR HIS SON | [31] |
| THE DEATH OF TALUTA | [32] |
| WIND SONG | [33] |
| BLUEBIRD SONG | [34] |
| SONG OF THE UNHAPPY WIFE | [35] |
| THE SONG OF UKIABI | [36] |
| A LOVER’S LAMENT (TEWA) | [37] |
| MY HOME OVER THERE (TEWA) | [38] |
| III SONGS OF NATURE (Secular) | |
| HUNTING SONG | [39] |
| A SONG OF THE DEER CEREMONY | [41] |
| MOUNT KOONAK: A SONG OF ARSUT | [42] |
| THE COYOTE AND THE LOCUST | [43] |
| KA-NI-GA SONG | [44] |
| CORN-GRINDING SONG (LAGUNA) | [45] |
| SONG TO THE TREES AND STREAMS | [46] |
| SONG TO THE MOUNTAINS | [47] |
| RITUAL SONG | [48] |
| WIND SONG | [49] |
| A SONG OF SPRING | [50] |
| DARKNESS SONG (FROM THE INVITATION RITE) | [51] |
| THE INVITATION SONG | [52] |
| THE PLANTING SONG | [56] |
| IV SONGS OF RAIN | |
| SONG OF THE RAIN CHANT | [57] |
| THE VOICE THAT BEAUTIFIES THE LAND | [59] |
| CORN-GRINDING SONG (TESUQUE) | [60] |
| SONG OF THE BLUE CORN DANCE | [62] |
| CORN-GRINDING SONG (ZUÑI) | [63] |
| CORN DANCE SONG (ZUÑI) | [64] |
| KORASTA KATZINA SONG | [65] |
| ANGA KATZINA SONG | [66] |
| HE-HEA KATZINA SONG | [67] |
| WUWUCHIM CHANT | [68] |
| A RAIN SONG OF THE SNAKE SOCIETY I | [69] |
| A RAIN SONG OF THE SNAKE SOCIETY II | [70] |
| CORN SONG | [71] |
| RAIN SONGS | [73] |
| A METATE SONG | [75] |
| FLUTE SONG | [77] |
| V SONGS OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS | |
| THE SUNRISE CALL | [78] |
| HYMN TO THE SUN | [79] |
| SUNSET SONG | [82] |
| INVOCATION TO THE SUN-GOD | [83] |
| A SONG OF GOTAL, LIII | [84] |
| FIRST DAYLIGHT SONG | [85] |
| SONG OF THE DAWN BOY | [86] |
| THE MORNING STAR AND THE NEW BORN DAWN | [87] |
| DAYLIGHT | [88] |
| THE BIRTH OF DAWN | [89] |
| SONG TO THE PLEIADES | [91] |
| THE SONG OF THE STARS | [92] |
| THE STARS DEHN-DEK AND MAH-OH-RAH | [93] |
| VI SONGS OF DEITIES AND HOLY PLACES | |
| SONG OF THE MASKED DANCERS | [95] |
| SONG OF THE MASKED DANCERS, III | [96] |
| EMERGENCE SONG | [97] |
| WARNING OF THE FLOOD | [98] |
| PROTECTION SONG | [99] |
| SONG OF NAYENEZGANI I | [101] |
| SONG OF NAYENEZGANI II | [102] |
| SONG OF THE HORSE | [103] |
| SONG OF THE HOGANS | [104] |
| WAR SONG (THE FLINT YOUTH) | [107] |
| ATSALEI YEDADIGLES (WIND BOY) | [109] |
| MOUNTAIN SONGS I-VI | [110] |
| MOUNTAIN SONG | [114] |
| MOUNTAIN SONG | [116] |
| VII SONGS OF INVOCATION FOR WELL BEING | |
| INVOCATION OF THE GAME | [117] |
| MEDICINE SONG | [119] |
| PRAYER OF THE FIRST DANCERS | [120] |
| A PRAYER OF THE SECOND DAY OF THE NIGHT CHANT | [125] |
| PRAYER TO DSILYI NEYÁNI (LORD OF THE MOUNTAINS) | [128] |
| DEDICATION OF A NEW HOUSE | [129] |
| PRAYER OF THE FOSTER-PARENT CHANT | [131] |
| HOLY SONG | [132] |
| INVOKING THE VISIONS | [133] |
| RITUAL SONG | [135] |
| MEDICINE SONG | [136] |
| SONG OF THE PRIMAL ROCK | [138] |
| INTRODUCTION OF THE CHILD TO THE COSMOS | [142] |
| SONG OF TURNING THE CHILD | [144] |
| SUPPLICATION OF THE TSÍZHU WASHTÁGE | [145] |
| THE TRIBAL PRAYER (OMAHA) | [146] |
| WAWAN SONG | [147] |
| THE MORNING SONG | [148] |
| [PART TWO] | |
| Poetic Forms in American Indian Lyrics | [149] |
| NOTES | [173] |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | [183] |
| INDEX | [187] |
AMERICAN INDIAN LOVE LYRICS
PART ONE
Indian Love Lyrics and Other Verse selected from the songs of the North American Indians
MY BARK CANOE (Ojibwa)
