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





A SUFFICIENT WISDOM


On the slope of a white mountain,
a hundred million years old:

two yellow dandelions of today.





SUDZENDAHWK'E HWYAA


K'e nen' dghelaay ggay,
c'etiyhwga tiyda'atah;

naedaggi c'et'aan' ked'ii dzaen tsogh.