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Philip Mazzei Study Center Established In New Jersey
Philip Mazzei Study Center Established In New Jersey
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
Sister Margherita Marchione of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Morristown, N.J., has single-handedly amassed the papers of the Italian patriot and American horticulturistturned- revolutionary under the auspices of the NHPRC.
Simon Heads Slate For 1980 Officers
Simon Heads Slate For 1980 Officers
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
John Y. Simon, editor of the U. S. Grant Papers at Southern Illinois University, has been recommended by the ADE nominating committee for the post of president-elect.
Letter To The Editor - July 17, 1979, Robert J. Taylor
Letter To The Editor - July 17, 1979, Robert J. Taylor
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
In looking over the NHPRC's recent Report to the President, some of us here were struck by the choice of Commission members from the two large historical associations.
Ade Newsletter: News Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1979
Ade Newsletter: News Of The Association For Documentary Editing, Volume 1, Number 4, December 1979
Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979-2011)
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A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson
A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Told by Many Nineteenth Century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the Modern Santee.
Gathered and Edited by Robert Frerichs and Paul A. Olson.
The fact that every known culture and civilization has acquired some sort of set of sacred stories is important. The eleven sacred stories in this work have multiple purposes. They possess a value as sheer entertainment; they also tell truths and lessons which explain the meaning of existence. Thus the Santee listener could fmd his place in the world and achieve an inner harmony through hearing stories. The characters in these stories are …
Chaucer's Epic Statement And The Political Milieu Of The Late Fourteenth Century, Paul Olson
Chaucer's Epic Statement And The Political Milieu Of The Late Fourteenth Century, Paul Olson
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Sets Knight's Tale in the tradition of political verse, and argues that the tale encourages peace in the domestic and foreign affairs of Chaucer's England. The hortatory, heroic style of the tale presents Theseus as a peace-making ideal, pertinent to the French wars of the time. The juxtaposition of the Miller's Tale with the Knight's Tale encourages placid relations with the peasant class.
Several critics, both neoclassic and modern, have observed that) as to kind, the Knight's Tale is an epic fiction. Characteristically, the poems we call medieval epics are what Ezra Pound also says an epic must be in …
The Book Of The Omaha: Literature Of The Omaha People, Paul Olson, Wallace Wade Miller (Thio-Um-Baska)
The Book Of The Omaha: Literature Of The Omaha People, Paul Olson, Wallace Wade Miller (Thio-Um-Baska)
Department of English: Faculty Publications
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ..................................... ix
I. The Creation .................................. 1
II. When Man Came to the Earth .................... .4
III. The Bringing to the Creation of a New Life ........... 5
IV. The Osage Creation Story ........................ 7
V. The Child is Placed in the Cosmos, in the Tribe, and in the Tribe's Fight .............. 9
VI. The Sacred Pole ............................... 15
VII. The Divisions of the Tribe and Colors .............. 19
VIII. Corn ....................................... 22
IX. The Buffalo Hunt ............................. 27
X. Ponca Buffalo Ritual (related) ................... .46
XI. The Corn Song
XII. Another Osage Creation Story .................... …
The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom
The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom
Department of English: Faculty Publications
I. Meeting the Pawnee ............................... 1
II. Pawnee Beliefs .................................. . 3
The Pawnee Creation Story ...................... 3
The Boy Who Was Sacrificed ..................... 8
III. Pawnee Hero Stories ............................. 14
Lone Chief ................................. 14
Little Warrior's Counsel. ................ . . . .... 27
IV. Pawnee Folk Tales ............................... 30
The Snake Brother ........................... 30
Mosquitoes ................................. 37
V. Boy Stories .................................... 39
The Boy Who Talked with Lightning .............. 39
The Boy and the Wonderful Robe ............... .42
The Boys, the Thunderbird, and the Water Monster .. 50
VI. Coyote Stories .................................. 54
Coyote and the Blind Buffalo ................... …