Diné bahane : the Navajo creation story / translated by Paul G. Zolbrod - Third Paperbound printing - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 1991, c1984. - xi, 431 p. ; 24 cm.

Translated from the Navajo.

Bibliography: p. 417-431.

This is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since Washington Matthews' Navajo Legends of 1847. Zolbrod's new translation renders the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page through a poetic idiom appropriate to the Navajo oral tradition. Zolbrod's book offers the general reader a vivid introduction to Navajo culture. For students of literature this book proposes a new way of looking at our literary heritage.

9780826310439

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Navajo Indians----Religion and mythology
Indians of South America---Religion and mythology

E99.N3 / D4513 1984

299.78 DIN