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essays in the traditional Indian literatures of the Far West
Creations and origins -- Coyote and friends, an experiment in interpretive bricolage -- From mythic to fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus myth -- "The hunter who had an elk for a guardian spirit," and the ecological imagination -- The wife who goes out like a man, comes back as a hero, the art of two Oregon Indian narratives -- Uncursing the misbegotten in a Tillamook incest myth -- Simon Fraser's canoe; or, Capsizing into myth -- Fish-hawk and other heroes -- Retroactive prophecy in western Indian narratives -- The Bible in western Indian mythology -- Tradition and individual talents in modern Indian writing.