Inside Dazzling Mountains: Southwest Native Verbal Arts(Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures)

Inside Dazzling Mountains provides fresh new translations of Native oral literatures of the Southwest, a region of vital and varied cultures and languages. The collection features songs, stories, chants, and orations from the four major language groups of the Southwest: Yuman, Nadíne (Apachean), Uto-Aztecan, and Kiowa-Tanoan. It combines translations of recordings made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a rich array of newly recorded and produced materials, attesting to the continued vitality and creativity of contemporary Native languages in the Southwest. For southwestern linguistic and cultural traditions to be more widely recognized and appreciated, retranslations of older works have been sorely needed. Original translations were often flawed and culturally biased and made use of literary conventions that were familiar to Anglo-Americans but foreign to the Native tribes themselves. Inside Dazzling Mountains corrects these flaws and celebrates the diversity of Native languages spoken in the Southwest today. Skillfully edited and translated by David L. Kozak, who offers a wealth of editorial tools for interpreting songs, song sets, myths, stories, and chants of the Southwest, past and present, this volume contributes to the continued vitality and cultural complexity of the region.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Editor's Introduction  Part 1. Language Isolates Seri  1. Leatherback Sea Turtle--Xiica Cmotómanoj  Written by René Montaño Herrera Translated by Stephen A. Marlett Introduced by Stephen A. Marlett 2. Those Who Had Hast Quita as Their Birthplace  Written by Lorenzo Herrera Casanova Translated by Stephen A. Marlett Introduced by Stephen A. Marlett 3. Twin Peaks--Hast Cacöla  Written by Francisco Xavier Moreno Herrera Translated by Stephen A. Marlett Introduced by Stephen A. Marlett Zuni  4. Two Zuni Coyote Tales   Narrator(s) Unknown  Collected by Stanley Newman  Introduced by Lynn Nichols Part 2. Yuman Language Family  Quechan 5. Coyote and Hen   Narrated by Barbara Levy  Translated by Barbara Levy and Amy Miller  Introduced by Amy Miller Tipai  6. Rabbit and Frog   Narrated by Jon Meza Cuero  Recorded by Margaret Field  Translated by Jon Meza Cuero, Amy Miller, and Margaret Field  Introduced by Margaret Field Part 3. Nadíne (Apachean) Language Family  Navajo  7. A Family Struggles: Excerpt from the Washington Matthews Version of the Navajo Mountain Chant   Introduced by Paul G. Zolbrod 8. John Watchman's "Ma'ii dóó Gólízhii"    Narrated by John Watchman  Translated by Harry Hoijer, Blackhorse Mitchell, Edward Sapir, John Watchman, and Anthony K. Webster  Introduced by Anthony K. Webster Chiricahua Apache  9. Samuel E. Kenoi's Portraits of White Men  Narrated by Samuel E. Kenoi Translated by Anthony K. Webster Introduced by Anthony K. Webster White Mountain Apache 10. Ndah Ch'ii'n   Narrated by Paul Ethelbah  Commentary by Genevieve Ethelbah  Introduced by M. Eleanor Nevins Part 4. Uto-Aztecan Language Family  Chemehuevi 11. How Coyote and Dog Exchanged Noses: A Chemeheuvi Tale   Narrated by George Laird  Translated by Carobeth Laird and John P. Harrington  Glossed by Angelina Serratos and Justin Goodenkauf  Introduced by Angelina Serratos Hopi 12. Two Hopi Poems   Singers Unknown  Recorded by H. R. Voth  Introduced by David Leedom Shaul 13. The Field Mouse Story   Narrated by Qöyawayma  Recorded by H. R. Voth  Introduced by David Leedom Shaul Yaqui 14. Wo'i Wakila into Taavu: Skinny Coyote and Bunny   Narrated by Santos Leyva  Translated into English by Maria Florez Leyva  Translated into Spanish by Mercedes Tubino Blanco  Introduced by Jason D. Haugen and Heidi Harley 15. The Talking Tree: A Yoeme Beginning   Narrator Unknown  Introduced by David Leedom Shaul 16. Cowgirl Jane: A Yoeme Cow and Monte Mediation   Narrator Unknown  Recorded by Tom Stanford  Introduced by David Leedom Shaul Tarahumara  17. Rarámuri Stories from Before: Raráumuri historias de antes   Narrated by Valente Argüelles, Eligio González, and María Ignacia Merino de Argüelles  Translated by Jamie Shadid  Recorded by Juan Pablo Garrido  Introduced by Juan Pablo Garrido and Nicolás Olivos Santoyo Pima-Maricopa 18. The Life History of a Pima-Maricopa Woman and Her Speech to Pope John Paul II   Narrated by Alfretta Antone  Introduced by Sam Pack Altar Valley Piman 19. Eighteenth-Century Jesuit and Franciscan Platicas: Lexical "Choice" and Textual Architecture   Translated into Altar Piman by Francisco Moyano  Introduced by David Leedom Shaul 20. The Lord's Prayer   Translated into Altar Piman by Anton Maria Benz  Back Translated by Phillip Miguel  Introduced by Phillip Miguel Tohono O'odham  21. The Albino Saguaro: Contemporary Storytelling in Tohono O'odham   Narrated by Stella Tucker  Translated by Phillip Miguel and Colleen M. Fitzgerald  Introduced by Colleen M. Fitzgerald and Phillip Miguel Part 5. Kiowa-Tanoan Language Family Kiowa 22. How Thébôl Got His Name   Narrated by Parker P. McKenzie, Yí:sâum  Transcribed and Translated by Gus Pàntháidê Palmer Jr.  Introduced by Gus Pàntháidê Palmer Jr. Picuris Pueblo 23. Picuris Traditional Tales: Stories from the Hidden Valley   Narrated by Rosendo Vargas (Phithəxomęnę)  Recorded by John P. Harrington  Translated by Amy Zaharlick  Introduced by Amy Zaharlick Arizona Tewa  24. A Yaaniwe Song: Celebrating Prosperity and Identity   Composed by Dewey Healing  Translated by Paul V. Kroskrity  Introduced by Paul V. Kroskrity 25. Avayun (and Coyote) Story: A Retranslation of "Coyote's False Tail"   Narrated by an Unknown Tewa Elder  Translated by Elsie Clews Parsons  Retranslated by Paul V. Kroskrity  Introduced by Paul V. Kroskrity Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo)  26. Four Springtime Tewa Songs   Presented, Translated, and Discussed by Peter Garcia Sr.  Tewa Discussion by Reycita Garcia, Patricia Ortiz, Beverly Garcia, and Gordon Garcia  Hopi Translation and Discussion by Griselda Saufkie  Acoma Keresan Translation and Discussion by Gregg Shutiva  Collected, Edited, and Introduced by Linda J. Goodman Part 6. Southwest Translation, Myth, and History 27. Translating the Verbal Art of the Native American Southwest   William M. Clements 28. Edenism: On the Star Husbandless Southwest    Donald Bahr 29. Yukiwmat Navoti'at: The Tradition of Yukiwma   Peter Whiteley Contributors  Index 

About the Author :
David L. Kozak is a professor of anthropology at Fort Lewis College. He is the author of Devil Sickness and Devil Songs: Tohono O'odham Poetics.

Review :
"In this beautifully presented anthology of songs, poems, and short narratives from the American Southwest, even the uninitiated reader gains a deep appreciation for the rich diversity of oral literature that ha long circulated in this region."-Sean O'Neill, American Anthropologist "[Inside Dazzling Mountains] demonstrates more culturally sensitive and subtle ways of approaching Native tales than have been the norm."-M. F. McClure, CHOICE