The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai As Retold By Elders and Headmen Manakaja and Sinyella 1918-1921

Early in the twentieth century, Leslie Spier and Erna Gunther, graduate students trained by anthropologist Franz Boas, hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to learn about Havasupai culture. In the process, they asked two Havasupai leaders and elders for every story they could remember. These were...

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Main Authors:	Tikalsky, Frank, Euler, Catherine A, Nagel, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2010
Edition:	1
Subjects:	Arizona Ethnic Studies Folklore Havasupai Havasupai Indians Havasupai mythology Leadership Mythology Native American Studies North Amerindians Oral tradition Sacred SOCIAL SCIENCE Tales U.S.A
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Summary:	Early in the twentieth century, Leslie Spier and Erna Gunther, graduate students trained by anthropologist Franz Boas, hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon to learn about Havasupai culture. In the process, they asked two Havasupai leaders and elders for every story they could remember. These were translated by native speakers and transcribed by Spier and, later, Gunther. Yet for unknown reasons Spier never published the whole collection of forty-eight stories, one of the earliest, most complete translations of an entire Native American oral tradition. Passed from Spier to anthropologist and Havasupai scholar Dr. Robert C. Euler, the stories, published here for the first time in book form with the permission of the Havasupai Tribal Council, are a cultural library and a cultural treasure that reflect an ancient Yuman-language mythological tradition. Publication restores them to the People (Pai/Pa/Pah) from whom they arose.
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ISBN:	0826349315 9780826349316