| reinforcement in the early going. My thanks, too, go to Professor Ekkehart Malotki of Northern Arizona University for listening to my ideas about transcription and translation and for sharing his with me while he was working on Hopi narratives. Likewise, I owe thanks to Karl Luckert of Southeast Missouri State University for his guidance in locating necessary resources in the field and for his bold and lucid interpretations of Navajo material. And I extend a special word of appreciation to Katherine Spencer Halpern, who read an early draft of my entire translation along with two separate versions of the introduction, alternately encouraging me to pursue my ideas about the relationship between poetry and culture and prompting me to be more accurate, sometimes by locating material I would not otherwise have found, and sometimes by spotting mistakes I had made. Hers is clearly the superior knowledge. |
| Dorothy Jean Smith and Donald Vrabel, reference librarians at Allegheny College, rendered ongoing assistance by obtaining valuable resource material. Mary Blumenthal, curator of the Clinton P. Anderson collection in the Zimmerman Library of the University of New Mexico, helped me to identify key sources, as did Katherine Bartlett, archivist at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and her colleague, Dorothy House, museum librarian. I am grateful to those three in particular for their hospitality and their ready knowledge of local material. Besides Dr. Halpern, Professor Herbert Landar of California State University at Los Angeles, Andrew Welsh of Rutgers University, and Professor James Bulman of Allegheny College all read early drafts of my work in part or entirely and provided useful guidance. Professor Barre Toelken, University of Oregon; Professor Jarold Ramsey, University of Rochester; and Professor Robert Young, University of New Mexico, read all or portions of a later draft, as did Professor Carter Revard, Washington University, whose comments and criticisms were especially helpful. And I make a special point of mentioning Elizabeth C. Hadas, Senior Editor at the University of New Mexico Press, in appreciation for her patience and her firm editorial hand. |
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