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.

To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive.

Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803281233
Publisher:	UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	10/01/1984
Series:	American Tribal Religions Series
Pages:	352
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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vi
	Acknowledgments	viii
Chapter 1.	Coyote and Porcupine	3
Chapter 2.	Coyote and Water Serpent	9
Chapter 3.	Coyote and Badger	23
Chapter 4.	Coyote and the Spiders	43
Chapter 5.	Coyote and Wren	57
Chapter 6.	Coyote and the Blue Jays	63
Chapter 7.	Coyote and Crow	69
Chapter 8.	Coyote and the Turkeys	77
Chapter 9.	Coyote and Little Bird	83
Chapter 10.	Coyote and the Bird Girls	91
Chapter 11.	Coyote and Grasshopper	99
Chapter 12.	Coyote and Cicada	105
Chapter 13.	Coyote and the Cowboy	113
Chapter 14.	Coyote and the Navajo	119
Chapter 15.	Coyote on a Salt Expedition	127
Chapter 16.	Coyote and Pavayoykyasi	141
Chapter 17.	The Coyote Chain	151
Chapter 18.	Coyote Learns Sorcery	161
Chapter 19.	Coyote and the So'yoko Ogre	179
Chapter 20.	Coyote and the Korowiste Kachinas	195
Chapter 21.	Coyote Boy Marries a Girl from Musangnuvi	229
	Glossary	285
	The Hopi Alphabet	340