WORLD VOICES

THE LANGUAGE RAVEN GAVE US
  BY JOHN E. SMELCER


Contents

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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

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





SQUIRREL MAN



A man went out to hunt squirrel.
He killed many squirrels
which he skinned
and with his sewing bag
he sewed them into a fur coat.
When he put it on
he became a squirrel, and
a man who went out to hunt squirrel
killed him.

Sometimes things don't turn out as planned.




DLIIGI KOHT'AENE



Dliigi uka tezyaa.
Dliigi nelt'e'e ghighaan
inansile' 'eł delbaexi 'alcesi
c'ekaan' yen tsic'uus ucii dalkaan'i.
Xu dezelyaa
zdlaen yen dliigi, 'eł
dliigi uka tezyaa dyilaak.

Ts'e' betanininiic.