"That the people might live" : loss and renewal in Native American elegy /
"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a numbe...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2012.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq43pw |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Oral Performances (i)
- The Iroquois Condolence Rites
- The Tlingit Koo. 'eex'
- Occasional Elegy
- Some Ghost Dance Songs as Elegy
- 2. Oral Performances (ii)
- "Logan's Lament"
- Black Hawk's "Surrender Speech"
- Chief Sealth's Farewell
- Two Farewells by Cochise
- The Surrender of Chief Joseph
- 3. Authors and Writers
- Black Hawk's Life
- Black Elk Speaks
- William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
- The Elegiac Poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John Rollin Ridge, and Others
- 4. Elegy in the "Native American Renaissance" and After
- Prose Elegy in Momaday, Hogan, and Vizenor
- Elegiac Poetry
- Appendix. Best Texts of the Speeches Considered in Chapter 2
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.