Inside dazzling mountains: Southwest native verbal arts

Language isolates

Yuman language family

Nadíne (Apachean) language family

Uto-Aztecan language family

Kiowa-Tanoan language family

Southwest translation, myth, and history.

Leatherback sea turtle = Xiica Cmotómanoj / written by René Montaño Herrera ; translated by Stephen A. Marlett

Those who had Hast Quita as their birthplace / written by Lorenzo Herrera Casanova ; translated by Stephen A. Marlett ; introduced by Stephen A. Marlett

Twin Peaks = Hast Cacöla / written by Francisco Xavier Moreno Herrera ; translated by Stephen A. Marlett ; introduced by Stephen A. Marlett

Two Zuni coyote tales / narrators(s) unknown ; collected by Stanley Newman ; introduced by Lynn Nicols

Coyote and hen / narrated by Barbara Levy ; translated by Barbara Levy and Amy Miller ; introduced by Amy Miller

Rabbit and frog / narrated by Jon Meza Cuero ; recorded by Margaret Field ; translated by Jon Meza Cuero, Amy Miller and Margaret Field ; introduced by Margaret Field

A family struggles : excerpt from the Washington Matthews version of the Navajo Mountain Chant / introduced by Paul G. Zolbrod

John Watchman's "Ma'ii dóó Gólízhii" / narrated by John Watchman ; translated by Harry Hoijer, Blackhorse Mitchell, Edward Sapir, John Watchman, and Anthony K. Webster ; introduced by Anthony K. Webster

Samuel E. Kenoi's portraits of White men / narrated by Samuel E. Kenoi ; translated by Anthony K. Webster ; introduced by Anthony K. Webster

Ndah Ch'ii'n / narrated by Paul Ethelbah ; commentary by Genevieve Ethelbah ; introduced by M. Eleanor Nevins

How coyote and dog exchanged noses : a Chemehuevi tale / narrated by George Laird ; translated by Carobeth Laird and John P. Harrington ; glossed by Angelina Serratos and Justin Goodenkauf ; introduced by Angelina Serratos

Two Hopi poems / Singers unknown ; recorded by H. R. Voth ; introduced by David Leedom Shaul

The field mouse story / narrated by Qöyawayma ; recorded by H. R. Voth ; introduced by David Leedom Shaul

Wo'i Wakila into Taavu : skinny coyote and bunny / narrated by Santos Leyva ; translated into English by Maria Florez Leyva ; translated into Spanish by Mercedes Tubino Blanco ; introduced by Jason D. Haugen and Heidi Harley

The talking tree : a Yoeme beginning / narrator unknown ; introduced by David Leedom Shaul

Cowgirl Jane : a Yoeme cow and Monte mediation / narrator unknown ; recorded by Tom Stanford ; introduced by David Leedom Shaul

Rarámuri stories from before : Rarámuri historias de antes / narrated by Valente Argüelles, Eligio González, and María Ignacia merino de Argüelles ; translated by Jamie Shadid ; recorded by Juan Pablo Garrido ; introduced by Juan Pablo Garrido and Nicolás Olivos Santoyo

The life history of a Pima-Maricopa woman and her speech to Pope John Paul II / narrated by Alfretta Antone ; introduced by Sam Pack

Eighteenth-century Jesuit and Franciscan Platicas : lexical "choice" and textual architecture / translated into Altar Piman by Francisco Moyano ; introduced by David Leedom Shaul

The Lord's Prayer / translated into Altar Piman by Anton Maria Benz ; back translated by Phillip Miguel ; introduced by Phillip Miguel

The albino saguaro : contemporary storytelling in Tohono O'odham / narrated by Stella Tucker ; translated by Phillip Miguel and Colleen M. Fitzgerald ; introduced by Colleen M. Fitzgerald and Phillip Miguel

How Thébôl got his name / narrated by Parker P. McKenzie, Yí:sâum ; transcribed and translated by Gus Pàntháidê Palmer, Jr. ; introduced by Gus Pàntháidê Palmer Jr.

Picuris traditional tales : stories from the hidden valley / narrated by Rosendo Vargas (Phithe [upside down e] xomęnę) ; recorded by John P. Harrington ; translated by Amy Zaharlick ; introduced by Amy Zaharlick

A Yaaniwe song : celebrating prosperity and identity / composed by Dewey Healing ; translated by Paul V. Kroskrity ; introduced by Paul V. Kroskrity

'Avayun (and coyote) story : a retranslation of "Coyote's False Tail" / narrated by an unknown Tewa elder ; translated by Elsie Clews Parsons ; retranslated by Paul V. Kroskrity ; introduced by Paul V. Kroskrity

Four springtime Tewa songs / presented, translated, and discussed by Peter Garcia Sr. ; Tewa discussion by Reycita Garcia, Patricia Ortiz, Beverly Garcia, and Gordon Garcia ; Hopi translation and discussion by Griselda Saufkie ; Acoma Keresan translation and discussion by Gregg Shutiva ; collected, edited, and introduced by Linda J. Goodman

Translating the verbal art of the Native American Southwest / William M. Clements

Edenism : on the Star Husband-less Southwest / Donald Bahr

Yukiwmat Navoti'at : the tradition of Yukiwma / Peter Whitely.