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| | ====== Three Songs of Mad Coyote ====== |
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| ====== Overview ====== | ====== Overview ====== |
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| For "Three Songs About Mad Coyote", this work involves three instances that involve the titular coyote, with the first describing accessories the creature wears, the second telling what the animal does, and the third from a different perspective, another possible character who has encountered the haunting and terrifying monster. | For "Three Songs of Mad Coyote", this work involves three instances that involve the titular coyote, with the first describing accessories the creature wears, the second telling what the animal does, and the third from a different perspective, another possible character who has encountered the haunting and terrifying monster. |
| ====== Commentary ====== | ====== Commentary ====== |
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| ====== Context ====== | ====== Context ====== |
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| This translation is by Herbert Spinden of Nez Perce's work from his "Essay on American Indian Poetry" in //Songs of the Tewa: New York: Exposition of the Tribal Arts//, which was released in the 1930s, and because of this, it's important to note how important this decade was in American Indian History. With Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, there was reform for it that wished to improve the Indian American programs in the country, and this spawned the Indian New Deal. So, with this heavy consideration of American Indians during the 1930s by Americans and particularly John Collier, U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs at the time, this collection of songs Perce released could be a possible reaction to the release of this Indian New Deal. With the embrace and consideration of American Indians, as well as the U.S. realizing the importance of existing tribes and the ways they live, more facets of their culture such as hunting, wildlife, as well as oral poems like "Three Songs of Mad Coyote" could've been more encouraged and made more prominent. Coming off of the Great Depression, which may have involved more hunting of wildlife, there was hope and a foundation that was built not just for Americans, but Indian Americans and their cultures, too. | This translation is by Herbert Spinden of Nez Percé work from "Essay on American Indian Poetry" in //Songs of the Tewa: New York: Exposition of the Tribal Arts//, which was released in the 1930s. |
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| | The Nez Percé are a North American Indian people and resided in what is now northeastern Oregon, southwestern Washington, and central Idaho, U.S. |
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| | In the 1930s, with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, there was reform for it that wished to improve the Indian American programs in the country, and this spawned the Indian New Deal. So, with this heavy consideration of American Indians during the 1930s by Americans and particularly John Collier, U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs at the time, this collection of songs Nez Percé people released could be a possible reaction to the release of this Indian New Deal. With the embrace and consideration of American Indians, as well as the U.S. realizing the importance of existing tribes and the ways they live, more facets of their culture such as hunting, wildlife, as well as oral poems like "Three Songs of Mad Coyote" could've been more encouraged and made more prominent. Coming off of the Great Depression, which may have involved more hunting of wildlife, there was hope and a foundation that was built not just for Americans, but Indian Americans and their cultures, too. |
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| ====== Bibliography ====== | ====== Bibliography ====== |
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| “American Indians 1933–1941 | Encyclopedia.Com.” Encyclopedia, www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/american-indians-1933-1941. Accessed 15 June | “American Indians 1933–1941 | Encyclopedia.Com.” Encyclopedia, www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-and-education-magazines/american-indians-1933-1941. Accessed 15 June |
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| | The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Nez Perce | History, Facts, Traditions, & Chief Joseph.” Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/Nez-Perce-people. Accessed 26 June 2021. |
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| “Native Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on | Encyclopedia.Com.” Encyclopedia, | “Native Americans, Impact of the Great Depression on | Encyclopedia.Com.” Encyclopedia, |
| www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/native-americans-impact-great-depression. Accessed 15 June 2021. | www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/native-americans-impact-great-depression. Accessed 15 June 2021. |
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| Spinden, Herbert, and Nez Perce. "Three Songs of Mad Coyote." Alcheringa 1-2: Ethnopoetics, edited by | Spinden, Herbert, and Nez Percé. "Three Songs of Mad Coyote." Alcheringa 1-2: Ethnopoetics, edited by |
| Jerome Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1971, pp. 36. | Jerome Rothenberg and Dennis Tedlock, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1971, pp. 36. |
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| | {{tag>[song story oral Native-American nature Nez-Percé print nature Tewa English United-States fable]}} |
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| | [[contributors:john_m._phillips|Page Creator: John Phillips]] |
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