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<p><p><I>Koasati Traditional Narratives</I> is the 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 by John R. Swanton, Mary R. Haas, Geoffrey D. Kimball, and others, and are presented in the original Koasati verse and in English translation.<p>&#160;<p>Because the Koasatis were full participants in the high civilization of the Mississippian period, with a complex aristocratic society, their oral literature exhibits considerable sophistication. The narratives are at turns serious, humorous, frightening, ironic, fantastic, and satiric, and serve both as a window to the mythohistoric past of the Koasatis and as a guide to their present. Encounters with Europeans, African slaves, and other Indian groups enabled Koasati narrators to engage their adaptive genius, and many of their tales derive from, among others, the Tunicas, the fables of La Fontaine, and the Book of Genesis. Part 1 includes mythological narratives, including Trickster rabbit stories, origin t

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Author

Kimball, Geoffrey D.

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press ; Bloomington, Ind. : American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University; University of Nebraska Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282749351

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Folklore, History, Humanities