Download or read book The Night Chant written by Washington Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting Chant written by Franc Johnson Newcomb and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of ethnology, reproducing in full color 35 sandpaintings from this important Navajo healing ceremony and analyzing their composition and artistic devices. The rites are described and explained and the symbolism and myth they express thoroughly explored.

Download or read book Night Chant written by Andrew Demcak and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terse, dark pieces in Andrew Demcak's fourth collection of poems occur under the cover of night. Into a richly macabre cityscape, the voices in these poems expose their secrets, from the desire of unbearable addictions to the shocking violence of hate crimes. In their spareness, with their array of surprising images, these poems are bold in their brevity. They converge into the urgent whispered voices we hear following us in the dark-our own voices and the voices of those like us. They become night chants.

Download or read book Living the Sky written by Ray A. Williamson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the sunrises between successive lumar phases. Then imagine them establishing observational sites and codified systems to pass their knowledge down through the centuries and continually refine it. A few years ago such images would have been abruptly dismissed. Today we are wiser. Living the Sky describes the exciting archaeoastronomical discoveries in the United States in recent decades. Using history, science, and direct observation, Ray A. Williamson transports the reader into the sky world of the Indians. We visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, sit with a Zuni sun priest on the winter solstice, join explorers at the rites of the Hopis and the Navajos, and trek to Chaco Canyon to make direct on-site observations of celestial events.

Download or read book Navaho Legends written by Washington Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twilight Chant written by Holly Thompson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical exploration of the transition between day and night and of the animals who thrive during this special time. As day slips softly into night, sharp eyes catch glimpses of the special creatures who are active at dusk. Lyrical text and lush art capture the richness and life of this magical time in a sumptuous picture book that will inspire budding naturalists and anyone who has ever chased a lightning bug at twilight. An author’s note about twilight is included.

Download or read book A Vocabulary of the Navaho Language written by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Native American Mythology written by Hartley Burr Alexander and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales. Legends include stories of sun worship, trickster pranks, the ghost world, and secret societies.

Download or read book Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant An Anthology Part 1 written by Kay Kaufman Shelemay and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume anthology introduces the Ethiopian Christian musical tradition to performers, music scholars, and liturgists, while addressing general problems of notation and oral tradition. Ethiopian Christian chant has been passed down both in an indigenous notational system and through oral transmission. This edition presents a selection of liturgical portions from the annual cycle in facsimiles of notated sources and in transcriptions from modern performances. Supplementing the edition is a complete dictionary of notational signs, with equivalents in modern notation, and a set of charts tracing the notational history of each liturgical portion through a sample of Ethiopian manuscripts.

Download or read book Constitution List of Meetings Officers Committees Fellows and Members written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science written by American Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Granite Monthly written by Henry Harrison Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.

Download or read book Putnam Anniversary Volume written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Navajo Blessingway Singer written by Frank Mitchell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This life history of a Navajo leader, recorded in the 1960s and first published in 1977, is a classic work in the study of Navajo history and religious traditions. "A skillful, meticulous, and altogether praiseworthy contribution to Navajo studies. . . . Although the focus of Mitchell's autobiography is upon his role as a Blessingway singer, there is much material here on Navajo history and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitchell attended the government school at Fort Defiance, worked on the railroad in Arizona, served as a handyman and interpreter at several trading posts and the Franciscan missions, and later served as a tribal councilman in the 1930s and as a judge in the 1940s and 1950s. His observations on these experiences are relevant to our understanding of contemporary Navajo life."--Lawrence C. Kelly, Western Historical Quarterly "This book stands easily among the best of the 'native' autobiographies. Narrated by a thoughtful and articulate Navajo leader over a span of eighteen years, this life history is brought into English with none of the selective romanticizing that has spoiled some books. . . . (It is) a superb job of bringing one culture ever closer to another."--Barre Tolken, Western Folklore

Download or read book Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature written by John Bierhorst and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1984-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories represent the Aztec, Iroquois, Maya, and Sioux cultures