Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi

by Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma

Overview

This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary, Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803281233
Publisher:	Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	11/01/1984
Series:	American Tribal Religions Series , #9
Pages:	343
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Ekkehart Malotki, who with Michael Lomatuway'ma compiled and translated this collection, is a language scholar at Northern Arizona University. Lomatuway'ma, a Third Mesa Hopi from Hotevilla and a library assistant at Northern Arizona, provided many of the stories. A special feature are the illustrations, based on Indian petroglyphs, by Anne-Marie Malotki. The introduction is by Karl W. Luckert, a professor of religious studies at Southwest Missouri State University.