The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A

• Other Authors: Martin, Wendy, Zagarell, Sandra A., Bryer, Jackson R., Jones, Anne Goodwyn, Brady, Mary Pat, Yarborough, Richard, Curnutt, Kirk, Cheung, King-Kok, Lee, James Kyung-Jin, Schweitzer, Ivy T., Schneider, Bethany, Miller, Quentin, Lauter, Paul, Alberti, John
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston 2010
• Subjects: American literature; United States > Literary collections; anishina*; eskimo*; inuit; Netsilik; tlingit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10106/1953

Beginnings to 1800 Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology changed the way American literature is taught. The Sixth Edition continues to balance the traditional, leading names in American literature with lesser-known writers and have built upon the anthology's other strengths: its apparatus and its ancillaries. BEGINNINGS TO 1700 Native American Culture and Traditions The Europeans Arrive New World Cultures New World Literatures Indigenous Literary Traditions Native American Oral Literatures Creation / Emergence Accounts Talk Concerning the First Beginning (Zuni) Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Diné-Navajo) Origin of the Sun Shower (Huron-Wendat) Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota) The Origin of Stories (Seneca) Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Haudenosaunee-Iroquois) Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks (Christine Dunham, Oglala Sioux) Man's Dependence on Animals (Anishinaabe-Ojibway) The Origin of Disease and Medicine (Cherokee) Raven and Marriage (Tlingit) Creation of the Whites (Yuchi) The Arrival of Whites (Lenape-Delaware) Ritual Poetry, Song, and Ceremony Sayatasha's Night Chant (Zuni) The Singer's Art (Aztec) Two Songs (Aztec) Like Flowers Continually Perishing (Ayocuan) (Aztec) Moved (Uvavnuk, Iglulik Eskimo-Inuit) Improvised Greeting (Takomaq, Iglulik Eskimo-Inuit) Song (Copper Eskimo-Inuit) Widow's Song (Quernertoq, Copper Eskimo-Inuit) My Breath (Netsilik Eskimo-Inuit) Deer Hunting Song (Virsak Vai-I, O'odham) Song of Repulse to a Vain Lover (To'ak, Makah) A Dream Song (Annie Long Tom, Clayoquot) Song of the Drum (Lewis Mitchell, Passamaquoddy) Song of War (Blackfeet) Song of War (Anishinaabe-Ojibway) War Song (Young Doctor, Makah) Song of War (Two Shields, Lakota) Song of War (Victoria, Tohono O'odham) Thanksgiving Address (Haudenosaunee-Iroquois) Formula to Attract a Woman (Cherokee) Formula for Going to the Water ...