Reading the Fire

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One

1) Creations and Origins

2) Coyote and Friends, an Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage

3) The Poetry and Drama of Healing, the Iroquoian “Condolence Ritual” and the Navajo “Night Chant”

Part Two

4) From Mythic to Fictive in the Nez Perce Orpheus Myth

5) “The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a...