Sacred Oral Tradition Of The Havasupai

by Tikalsky Frank

• ISBN13: 9780826349316
• ISBN10: 0826349315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

The Havasupai Indians have called the Grand Canyon home for nearly 800 years. This is a book about early Havasupai Indian myths and stories. In 1918-1921 anthropologists Leslie Spier and Erna Gunther hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to learn about, and record, then-living Havasupai culture. In the process they asked two Havasupai leaders and elders for every story they could remember. These 48 stores were translated by native speaker, but for unknown reasons were never published. Spier passed the manuscript on to Havasupai scholar Dr. Robert Euler, who entrusted the stories to his friend and colleague Frank Tikalsky. Tilkalsky's manuscript includes the Havasupai myths as Spier and Gunther recorded them almost a century ago.

Author Biography

Frank D. Tikalsky, Ed.D., is a clinical psychologist. He lives in Bayfield, Colorado. Catherine A. Euler, Ph.D., is a historian currently teaching at the University of Arizona. John Nagel, M.D., is a psychiatrist in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Letter from the Havasupai Tribal Council	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Contexts: Anthropology, History, and Myth Theory
The Prehistory of the Grand Canyon	p. 3
The Changing Life of the Havasupai	p. 10
History, Leadership, and Language	p. 17
An Overture to the Scientific Study of Myth	p. 52
The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai
Introduction	p. 67
The Stories	p. 69
The Culture Heroes	p. 69
The Origin of Corn	p. 71
The Separation of the Tribes	p. 73
The Separation of the Havasupai and Yavapai	p. 75
The Sun and the Moon Are Made (first version)	p. 77
The Sun and the Moon Are Made (second version)	p. 79
The Early Migration	p. 81
The Culture Heroes Become Animals	p. 84
The Flood (first version)	p. 85
The Flood (second version)	p. 92
The Boy Who Killed Blue Hawk (first version)	p. 94
The Boy Who Killed Blue Hawk (second version)	p. 103
The Yavapai Origin Tale	p. 110
The People Become Rocks (first version)	p. 145
The People Become Rocks (second version)	p. 147
Wolf's Boy (first version)	p. 148
Wolf's Boy (second version)	p. 156
The Stolen Wife (first version)	p. 167
The Stolen Wife (second version)	p. 174
The Water-Elk (first version)	p. 181
The Water-Elk (second version)	p. 184
Bear and Mountain Lion (first version)	p. 190
Bear and Mountain Lion (second version)	p. 193
The Wronged Daughter	p. 198
Rock Squirrel's Grandson (first version)	p. 200
Rock Squirrel's Grandson (second version)	p. 203
The Man on the Ledge (first version)	p. 209
The Man on the Ledge (second version)	p. 216
The Jealous Indians	p. 222
Turkey's Revenge (first version)	p. 225
Turkey's Revenge (second version)	p. 228
Snake's Exploits	p. 230
The Roc (first version)	p. 232
The Roc (second version)	p. 237
Sun Sets the World Afire (first version)	p. 240
Sun Sets the World Afire (second version)	p. 243
Porcupine and Coyote (first version)	p. 254
Porcupine and Coyote (second version)	p. 257
Coyote and Wolf Kill Bear	p. 260
Wolf and Coyote Catch Fish (first version)	p. 266
Wolf and Coyote Catch Fish (second version)	p. 270
Turkey	p. 275
The Bungling Host Strikes His Head	p. 278
The Bungling Host Is Stepped On	p. 279
The Bungling Host Fires the Brush	p. 280
Deer Tricks Coyote	p. 282
Bat	p. 283
Song Series	p. 284
Appendix: Havasupai (Yuman) Texts	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 295
Biographies of Contributors	p. 306
List of Maps
	p. 44
	p. 63
	p. 64
	p. 66
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