Songs of the Tewa AUTH-9890786 Joel Feinberg

Joel Feinberg

equipment ravaged by time and vandals

Emily and Joseph

He finally decided to stick it out for one more year

The ruins of Adobe Walls

Songs of the Tewa AUTH-9890786 Joel FeinbergFor centuries the American Indian literary tradition was primarily an oral one. Since written languages were rare among native North and South American cultures, all literature myth, legend, story, poetry was passed along the generations through memory and the spoken word. Herbert Joseph Spinden collected these at a time around 1933 when the Indian poetic voice was a nameless one. The songs included here are of that period and his translations of Tewa