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Oral Literature
Southwest Indigenous oral-literary collections preserved with storyteller, collector, translation, and community-authority boundaries.
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Texts
The Delight Makers — Adolf F. BandelierAdolf F. Bandelier's 1890 ethnographic novel of the prehistoric Rito de los Frijoles pueblo, dramatizing Keresan Pueblo religion, clan life, and the Koshare society through a story of jealousy and communal collapse.The Man Who Married the Moon — Charles Fletcher LummisCharles Fletcher Lummis's complete 1894 collection of thirty-two English Pueblo folk stories, with introduction, songs, notes, and source-context discussion.Zuñi Folk Tales — Frank Hamilton CushingFrank Hamilton Cushing's complete 1901 collection of thirty-three English Zuñi folk tales, with Powell's introduction, notes, plates, and designs.