Description
Book SynopsisThe first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators between 1910 and 1992 and are presented in the original Koasati verse and in English translation.
Trade Review"[Kimball] has performed an invaluable service for students of orally expressed verbal art by documenting a corpus of well-translated, well-presented texts from a community that has been underrepresented in the available literature.
Koasati Traditional Narratives is an extremely valuable addition to the library of resources on folklore, literature, and American Indian studies."—William M. Clements,
Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Part One: Mythological Narratives1. Rabbit Stories2. Origin Tales3. Monster Stories4. Animal Tales5. Medicine Origin Tales6. Christian Tales Part Two: Semihistorical Narratives7. Encounter Stories8. War Stories9. Other Semihistorical Stories Appendix 1. Linguistically Analyzed TextsAppendix 2. Transcriptions of Swanton's TextsReferences
