Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa

Name: Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
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ISBN: 9780807854211

ISBN-10: 0807854212

ISBN-13: 9780807854211

Edition: 2003

Authors: Charles M. Hudson

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This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, this extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacin, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder,Conversations with the High Priest of Coosaattempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast. Mediating the exchange between the two…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction


Acknowledgments


A Letter



The Coming of the Nokfilaki



The Contest between the Four-footeds and the Flyers



More Animal Stories



Rabbit



Master of Breath and the Great Ones



Sun, Corn Woman, Lucky Hunter, and the Twosome



Horned Serpent, the Clans, and the Origin of Bears



The Vengeance of Animals, the Friendship of Plants, and the Anger of the Sun



Divination, Sorcery, and Witches



Sun Chief and Sun Woman



Tastanake and the Ball Game



Everyday Life Is Their Book



Posketa



The Last Conversation


A Note on the Spelling of Creek Words


Sources


Illustration Credits


Index