Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NOTE (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES)
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt61phc
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Conversations with the high priest of Coosa.
International Standard Book Number
9780807827536
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Domingo de la Anunciación,1510 or 1511-1591
Luna y Arellano, Tristán de,1510-1573
Domingo de la Anunciación,1510 or 1511-1591.
Luna y Arellano, Tristán de,1510-1573.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Coosa Indians, Fiction.
Discoveries in geography, Fiction.
Explorers, Fiction.
Mississippian culture, Fiction.
Spaniards-- Southern States, Fiction.
American Literature.
Coosa Indians.
Discoveries in geography.
English.
Explorers.
FICTION-- Biographical.
FICTION-- Historical.
Languages & Literatures.
Mississippian culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- Native American Studies.