Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi

by Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway'Ma

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803281234
• ISBN13: 9780803281233
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"