@article{484728,
      recid = {484728},
      author = {Krupat, Arnold.},
      title = {"That the people might live" loss and renewal in Native  American elegy / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cornell University Press,},
      address = {Ithaca :},
      pages = {xii, 242 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac  expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety  of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the  Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony  of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a  number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted  in culturally specific ways by many different tribal  nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the  eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail,  and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk  and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks  at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald  Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph  Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language  and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently  felt by Native peoples both personally and socially:  someone who had contributed to the People's well-being was  now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered  mourners consolation so that they might overcome their  grief and renew their will to sustain communal life"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/484728},
}