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.
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