附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128).
Stories. Introduction -- Chinnubbie and the owl -- Chinnubbie scalps the squaws -- Indian anecdotes -- Uncle Dick and Uncle Will -- Uncle Dick's sow -- "Jes bout a mid'lin', sah" -- Mose and Richard -- Two famous prophets -- A foxy old buck -- Orations. Introduction -- The Indian: what of him? -- Sequoyah -- Room at the top -- Col. McIntosh: a few words to his memory -- The Creek opening guns -- Muscogee (Creek) oral traditions. Introduction -- The origins of music according to the Creek medicine-men -- The 'possum and the skunk: or how the 'possum lost the hair off his tail -- A Creek fable -- Fable of the foolish young bear -- The devil's parodies -- A fable (January 31, 1902) -- A fable (February 7, 1902) -- A fable (February 14, 1902) -- Story by an Indian raconteur.
摘要:Though he died at the age of thirty-four, the Muscogee (Creek) poet, journalist, and humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was one of the most prolific and influential American Indian writers of his time. This volume of nine stories, five orations, and nine works of oral tradition is the first to collect these entertaining and important works of Muscogee literature. Many of Posey's stories reflect trickster themes; his orations demonstrate both his rhetorical prowess and his political stance as a "Progressive" Muscogee; and his works of oral tradition reveal his deep cultural roots. Most of these pieces, which first appeared between 1892 and 1907 in Indian Territory newspapers and magazines, have since become rarities, many of the original pieces surviving only as single clippings in a few archives.
