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Literary Retellings

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Texts

Many Swans — Amy LowellAmy Lowell's 1920 narrative poem retelling a Kathlamet legend of a man named Many Swans who climbs an arrow-ladder to the sun, freely elaborated with motifs and songs drawn from several Native American traditions.