Hopi Animal Stories

Hopi Animal Stories
Author: Michael Lomatuway'ma,Lorena Lomatuway'ma,Sidney Namingha,Ekkehart Malotki
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803282710

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Thirty Hopi tales about Coyote the Trickster, Medicine Man badger, and the Chipmunk Girls reflect Hopi attitudes towards such issues as courtship, friendship, courage, healing, and the treatment of children.

Native American Animal Stories

Native American Animal Stories
Author: Joseph Bruchac III
Publsiher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2020-10-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781682752050

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The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and death. How the Butterflies Came to Be is one of twenty-four Native American tales included in Native American Animal Stories. The stories, coming from Mohawk, Hopi, Yaqui, Haida and other cultures, demonstrate the power of animals in Native American traditions.Parents, teachers and children will delight in lovingly told stories about "our relations, the animals." The stories come to life through magical illustrations by Mohawk artists John Kahionhes Fadden and David Fadden."The stories in this book present some of the basic perspectives that Native North American parents, aunts and uncles use to teach the young. They are phrased in terms that modern youngsters can understand and appreciate ... They enable us to understand that while birds and animals appear to be similar in thought processes to humans, that is simply the way we represent them in our stories. But other creatures do have thought processes, emotions, personal relationships...We must carefully ccord these other creatures the respect that they deserve and the right to live

Hopi Stories of Witchcraft Shamanism and Magic

Hopi Stories of Witchcraft  Shamanism  and Magic
Author: Ekkehart Malotki,Ken Gary
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803283180

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The traditional Hopi world, as reflected in Hopi oral literature, is infused with magic?a seamless tapestry of everyday life and the supernatural. That magic and wonder are vividly depicted in this marvelous collection of authentic folktales. For the Hopis, the spoken or sung word can have a magical effect on others. Witchcraft?the wielding of magic for selfish purposes by a powaqa, or sorcerer?has long been a powerful, malevolent force. Sorcerers are said to have the ability to change into animals such as a crow, a coyote, a bat, or a skeleton fly, and hold their meetings in a two-tiered kiva to the northeast of Hopi territory. Shamanism, the more benevolent but equally powerful use of magic for healing, was once commonplace but is no longer practiced among the Hopis. Shamans, or povosyaqam, often used animal familiars and quartz crystals to help them to see, diagnose, and cure illnesses. Spun through these tales are supernatural beings, otherworldly landscapes, magical devices and medicines, and shamans and witches. One story tells about a man who follows his wife one night and discovers that she is a witch, while another relates how a jealous woman uses the guise of an owl to make a rival woman's baby sick. Other tales include the account of a boy who is killed by kachinas and then resurrected as a medicine man and the story of a huge rattlesnake, a giant bear, and a mountain lion that forever guard the entrance to Maski, the Land of the Dead.

Hopi Tales of Destruction

Hopi Tales of Destruction
Author: Ekkehart Malotki,Michael Lomatuway'ma,Lorena Lomatuway'ma,Sidney Namingha
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803282834

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"The tales concern such villages as Sikyatki, Hisatsongoopavi, and Awat'ovi, which were destroyed by war, fire, earthquake, or internal strife. Though abandoned for centuries, they live in memory, reminders of ancient tragedies and enmities that changed the Hopis forever. Related by storytellers from Second and Third Mesa, these tales vividly describe village destruction and show how much human evils such as witchcraft, hubris, corruption and betrayal of fundamental values can precipitate social disintegration and chaos."--BOOK JACKET.

Hopi Coyote Tales

Hopi Coyote Tales
Author: Ekkehart Malotki
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1984-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803281234

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This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive. Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.

The Fire Stealers

The Fire Stealers
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Kiva Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781885772138

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Tells how several animals failed in their efforts to steal fire for the Hopis, but eventually Vulture succeeded.

Native American Animal Stories

Native American Animal Stories
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publsiher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1992-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0606066101

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A collection of twenty-four animal stories from Indian tribes throughout North America

Book of the Hopi

Book of the Hopi
Author: Frank Waters
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 345
Release: 1985
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:901425353

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