Sign-In
Cart
"That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Paperback
Native American HistoryMythology & FolkloreStorytelling
ISBN13: 9780806193038
Publisher: Univ Of Oklahoma Pr
Published: Sep 19 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard hvmakimata-that's what they used to say-a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, and oral histories and creation myths knit together to explain the Indian world.
Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors, Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico's stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the past, and foresee the future-and through them he skillfully connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history.
Oral tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger story of where they come from and how they work, That's What They Used to Say offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and infinitely complex permutations.
1 different editions
Also available
"That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Fixico, Donald L.
Hardcover
Also from
Fixico, Donald L.
The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State
Fixico, Donald L.
Hardcover
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Fixico, Donald L.
Paperback
"That's What They Used to Say": Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
Fixico, Donald L.
Hardcover
Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality
Fixico, Donald L.
Hardcover
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
Fixico, Donald L.
Paperback
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Fixico, Donald L.
Hardcover
Also in
Native American History
Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
Lapier, Rosalyn R.
Hardcover
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Paperback
Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
Konkle, Maureen
Paperback
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Gwynne, S. C.
Paperback
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Hardcover
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation
Peart-Smith, Paul
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Hardcover
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
Krawec, Patty
Hardcover
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded
Treuer, Anton
Paperback
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Pember, Mary Annette
Hardcover
Puerto Rico: Historia de Una Nación / Puerto Rico: A National History
Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell
Paperback
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present
Keene, Adrienne
Hardcover
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Bible Translation of the New Testament
Wildman, Terry M.
Paperback
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Hardcover
Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation Guidebook: An Introduction to Ojibwe Star Knowledge
Lee, Annette Sharon
Wilson, William Peter
Gawboy, Carl
Paperback
Dakota/Lakota Star Map Constellation Guidebook: An Introduction to D(L)akota Star Knowledge
O'Rourke, Charlene
Lee, Annette Sharon
Rock, Jim
Paperback
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
Paperback
We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope
Charleston, Steven
Hardcover
The Four Agreements Companion Book: Using the Four Agreements to Master the Dream of Your Life
Mills, Janet
Ruiz, Don Miguel
Paperback
Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie Tie-In Edition): The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Grann, David
Paperback
Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land
Cobb, Russell
Hardcover
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Paperback
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Geniusz, Mary Siisip
Paperback
Spirits Dancing: The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, and Living Connections to the Cosmos
Novitsky, Travis
Lee, Annette S.
Paperback
Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
Topa (Four Arrows), Wahinkpe
Narvaez, Darcia
Paperback
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
Anderson, M. Kat
Paperback
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend
Drury, Bob
Clavin, Tom
Paperback
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Smithers, Gregory
Paperback
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux Volume 36
Black Elk
Brown, Joseph Epes
Paperback
365 Days of Walking the Red Road: The Native American Path to Leading a Spiritual Life Every Day
Jean, Terri
Paperback
The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a Continent
Easter, Gerald
Vorhees, Mara
Hardcover
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
Simpson, Leanne
Paperback
Rediscovering Turtle Island: A First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America
Keen, Taylor
Paperback
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
Silverman, David J.
Paperback
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Madley, Benjamin
Paperback
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Philbrick, Nathaniel
Paperback
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
Childs, Craig
Paperback
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
Swanson, James L.
Hardcover
Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
Buerge, David M.
Paperback
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack and the Fight for Survival in Early America
Swanson, James L.
Paperback
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest: Volume 173
Brown, John A.
Collins, Cary C.
Ruby, Robert H.
Paperback
All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
Paperback
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
McDiarmid, Jessica
Paperback
Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of
Tedlock, Dennis
Paperback
Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
McNally, Robert Aquinas
Hardcover
Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
Wilkinson, Charles
Hardcover
The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo: A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
Nerburn, Kent
Paperback
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery
Rah, Soong-Chan
Charles, Mark
Paperback
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
Parkinson, Robert G.
Hardcover
Retracing the Keowee Trail: A Deep Map of the Cherokee Path in the History of the Carolinas
Taylor, Stuart
Paperback
Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity
Calloway, Colin G.
Hardcover
Managed Extinction: The Decline and Loss of Wild Salmon and Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest
Williams, Rick
Lichatowich, Jim
Hardcover
Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out: A Narrative History
Brunner, Sharon Marie
Paperback
Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
Shade, Hastings
Teuton, Christopher B.
Paperback
Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy: How God Prepared the Americas for Conversion Before the Lady Appeared
Gonzalez, Joseph Julian
González, Monique
Gonzàlez, Monique
Paperback
The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio (Facsimile Reprint)
Randall, Emilius Oviatt
Randall, E. O.
Paperback
The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript
Díaz, Gisele
Rodgers, Alan
Paperback
Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and about Indigenous Peoples
Younging, Gregory
Paperback
God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England
Warren, James A.
Paperback
Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest
Erdrich, Heid E.
Paperback
The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
Treuer, Anton
Paperback
Native Americans: A Captivating Guide to Native American History and the Trail of Tears, Including Tribes Such as the Cherokee, Muscogee
History, Captivating
Hardcover
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Large Print Edition)
Grann, David
Paperback
The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows
Nerburn, Kent
Paperback
Gaa-Izhi-Miinigoowizid A'Aw Anishinaabe: What We Were Given as Anishinaabe
Gonzalez, Chato Ombishkebines
Staples, Lee Obizaan
Paperback
To the American Indian: the Unique Personal Account of a Yurok Native American Woman of Northern California
Thompson, Lucy
Paperback
Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Villanueva, Edgar
Paperback
Land of the Oneidas: Central New York State and the Creation of America, from Prehistory to the Present
Koch, Daniel
Paperback
The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
Custalow, Linwood Little Bear
Daniel Silver Star, Angela L.
Paperback
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Witgen, Michael John
Paperback
They Would Not Be Moved: The Enduring Struggle of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to Keep Their Reservation
White, Bruce
Paperback
Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes: Nine Indian Writers on the Legacy of the Expedition
Josephy, Alvin M.
Paperback
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Saunt, Claudio
Paperback
American Colonies: The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Taylor, Alan
Paperback
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Cozzens, Peter
Paperback
We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies
Risling Baldy, Cutcha
Paperback
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Cozzens, Peter
Paperback
First Nations Version: An Indigenous Bible Translation of the New Testament
Wildman, Terry M.
Hardcover
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Eustace, Nicole
Paperback
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
Nerburn, Kent
Paperback
Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
Gable, Mona
Paperback
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Nelson, Megan Kate
Paperback
Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
Brown, Deidre
Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan
Ellis, Ngarino
Hardcover