WORLD VOICES

THE LANGUAGE RAVEN GAVE US
  BY JOHN E. SMELCER


Contents

Home
Introduction

About the Author
Creation Myth
Playing Hide-and-Seek
    with Raven

The Indian Prophet
On Feet of Clouds
Song of the Rain
Prayer Singer
Zen Raven
A Sufficient Wisdom
Loonsong
Raven's Trans-Species
    Love Song

Squirrel Man
Muskrat Woman
Mountain Smoke

World Voices Home

The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol





PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK
WITH RAVEN



While Porcupine counted to ten
Raven hid behind a spruce tree
and turned himself into a cow caribou.

Poor Porcupine never figured it out.





NIŁCA' STANA'STNEŁ'IISI
KAE SAGHANI GGAAY



Nuuni taak k'e hwlazaan
Saghani Ggaay koł'ii niidze ts'abaeli
'eł cic'uunen udzih yats'iidi.

Nuuni tege 'sdade'estniige.