Songs of the Tewa AUTH-9890786 The ruins of Adobe Walls

The ruins of Adobe Walls

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Songs of the Tewa AUTH-9890786 The ruins of Adobe WallsFor 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