talk concerning the first beginning zuni
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talk concerning the first beginning zuni
Paul Lauter Trinity College The Heath Anthology of American Literature General Editor Juan Bruce-Novoa University of California at Irvine Jackson Bryer University of Maryland Elaine Hedges Towson State University Amy Ling Georgetown University Daniel Littlefield University of Arkansas at Little Rock Wendy Martin The Claremont Graduate School Charles Molesworth Queens College, City University of New York Carla Mulford Pennsylvania State University Raymund Paredes University of California at Los Angeles La OF Co Co Ho Re ter, et al., THE HEATH ANTHOLOGY AMERICAN LITERATURE. First Edition. yright (c) 1990 by D. C. Heath and pany. Used by permission of ghton Mifflin Company. All rights erved. Volume 1 Hortense Spillers Cornell University Linda Wagner-Martin University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Andrew Wiget New Mexico State University Richard Yarborough University of California at Los Angeles D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts Toronto CONTENTS xxxiii To the Reader Colonial Period: to 1700 22 3 Native American Traditions 25 This Newly Created World (Winnebago) 26 Emergence Song (Pima) 26 Talk Concerning the. First Beginning (Zuni) 40 Changing Woman and the Hero Twins after the Emergence of the People (Navajo) 52 The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt (Hopi) 56 Iroquois or Confederacy of the Five Nations (Iroquois) 59 Raven and Marriage (Tlingit) 64 Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her (Tsimshian) 67 The Literature of Discovery and Exploration 69 70 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) from Journal of the First Voyage to America 80 The Virgin of Guadalupe 81 History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531 89 Alvar Nunez. Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?) 89 89 91 92 93 94 95 from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca from Chapter VII: The Character of the Country from Chapter VIII: We Go from Aute from Chapter X: The Assault from the Indians Chapter XXI: Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted Chapter XXIV: Customs of the Indians of That Country from Chapter XXVII: We Moved Away and Were Well Received vi Contents Contents • vii 96 97 98 from Chapter XXXII: The Indians Give Us Hearts of Deer Chapter XXXIII: We See Traces of Christians from Chapter XXXIV: Of Sending for the Christians 99 99 99 100 A Gentleman of Elvas (11. 1 537-1557) from The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida Chapter VIII: Of some inrodes that were made into the countrie Chapter IX: How this Christian came to the land of Florida 146 149 John Smith (1580-1631) 151 from A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan] 152 103 Rene 104 from Goulaine de Laudonniere (fl. 1562-1582) A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certaine French Captaines unto Florida 106 Pedro Menendez de Aviles (1519-1574) 106 from Letter to Philip II (October 15, 1565) 111 To a Jesuit Friend (October 15, 1566) 114 114 118 118 121 121 122 125 128 156 160 164 Gaspar Perez de Villagra (1555-1620) from The History of New Mexico Canto One: [Argument of the history] from Canto Fourteen: How the Rio del Norte was discovered Canto Thirty: How the new general, after giving his orders, left to bid Luzcoija farewell Canto Thirty-one: How victory was finally won Voyages to the Great River St. Lawrence, 1 608-1612 : An Encounter with the Iroquois from The Voyages of 1615: Champlain, Among Woods Book III, Chapter 2: [Smith as captive at the court of Powhatan in 1608] Book IV: (Pocahontas's introduction to the British court in 1616] from A Description of New England [Appeal for settlers to plant a colony in New England] from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of NewEngland, or Anywhere, or the Path-way to Experience to Erect a the Huron, Lost in the 136 Samuel Puchas (1577?-1626) 137 from Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas His Pilgrimes from Chapters 1, 2, 3, 9 Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?) from A Discourse of Virginia [Here Followeth What Happened in James Town, in Virginia, after Captain Newport's Departure for England] The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado 131 Samuel de Champlain (1570?-1635) 132 from The Voyages 132 of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 from The 135 154 164 Pedro de Casteñeda (1510?-1570?) from Chapter XXI: Of how the army returned to Tiguex and the general reached Quivira 120 Summer Isles 152 160 Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola 117 from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Plantation [Review of the colonies planted in New England and Virginia] Fray Marcos de Niza (1495?-1542?) from A Relation of the Reverend Father The Literature of European Settlement 172 Richard Frethorne (fl. 1623) 173 Richard Frethorne, to His Parents (Virginia, 1623) 176 Thomas Morton (c. 1579—c. 1647) from New English Canaan 177 177 178 178 179 180 181 181 182 183 184 187 from Book I, Chapter IV: Of Their Houses and Habitations from Chapter VI: Of the Indians apparrell Chapter VIII: Of their Reverence, and respect to age Chapter XVI: Of their acknowledgment of the Creation, and immortality of the Soule from Chapter XX: That the Salvages live a contended life from Book III, Chapter I: Of a great League made with the Plimmouth Planters after their arrival], by the Sachem of those Territories from Chapter V: Of a Massacre made upon the Salvages at Wessaguscus from Chapter VII: Of Thomas Mortons entertainement at Plimmouth, and castinge away upon an Island from Chapter XIV: Of the Revells of New Canaan Chapter XV: Of a great Monster supposed to be at Ma-re-Mount; and the preparation made to destroy it from Chapter XVI: How the 9. worthies put mine Host of Ma re•Mount into the inchaunted Castle at Plimmouth, and terrified him with the Monster Briareus - viii Contents Contents ix 188 John Winthrop' (1588-1649) 191 from A Modell of Christian Charity 199 John Winthrop's Christian Experience 204 from The Journal of John Winthrop 210 William Bradford (1590-1657) 212 from Of Plymouth Plantation 212 213 214 215 215 217 220 221 from Book I, Chapter I: [The Separatist Interpretatio n of the' 272 Before the Birth of One of Her Children 272 To My Dear and Loving Husband 273 A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment 274 In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659 276 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1655, Being a Year and Half Old 277 from Meditations Divine and Moral Reformation in England 1550-1607] from Chapter III: Of their Settling in Holland, and their Manner of Living, and Entertainment there from Chapter IV: Showing the Reasons and Causes of Their Removal from Chapter. VII: Of their Departure from Leyden; and other things thereabout ; with their Arrival at Southampton; where they all met together and took in their Provisions from Chapter IX: Of their Voyage; and how they passed the Sea; and their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod of from Book II, Chapter XI: The Remainder of Anno 1620 [The Mayflower Compact, The Starving Time, Indian Relations] from Chapter XIV, Anno Domini 1623: [End of the "Common Course and Condition"] from Chapter XIX, Anno Domini 1628: [Thomas Morton of Merrytnount] 282 Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) 284 God's Controversy with New-England 295 The Bay Psalm Book (1640), The New-England Primer (1683?) 298 from The Bay Psalm Book from "The Preface" by John Cotton 298 300 308 308 309 309 309 310 Psalms 1, 6, 8, 19, 23, 100, 137, 141 from The New England Primer Alphabet The Dutiful Child's Promises Verses Again The Death of John Rogers 225 Chapter XXIII, Anno Domini 1632: [Prosperity Brings Dispersal of Population] 226 227 from Chapter XXVIII, Anno Domini 1637: [The Pequot War] from Chapter XXIX, Anno Domini 1638: [Great and Fearful Earthquake] 228 229 from Chapter XXXII, Anno Domini 1642: [Wickedness Breaks Forth] from Chapter XXXIII, Anno Domini 1643: [The Life 'and Death of Elder Brewster] 232 Roger Williams (c. 1 603-1683) 234' from A Key into the Language of 239 241 249 254 America' Chapter XX: Of their nakednesse and clothing Chapter XXI: Of Religion, the soule, etc. Chapter XXIX: Of Their Wane, etc. Tohis the Town of Providence: Testimony of Roger Williams relative to first coming into the Narragansett country, dated June 18, 1682 256 Anne Bradstreet (c..1612-1672) 258 The Prologue [To Her Book] 260 The Author to Her Book 260 To Her Father With Some Verses 261 Contemplations 269 The Flesh and the Spirit 311 Seventeenth-Century Wit 312 Nathaniel Ward (1578-1652) 312 Commendatory poem for Anne Bradstreet's Several Poems 313 from The Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America 313 313 Philip Pain (?–c. 1667) from Daily Meditations: or, Quotidian Preparations for and Considerations of Death and Eternity 314 314 John Fiske (1608-1677) Anagram on the Death of Thomas Hooker: "A rest; oh corn'! oh"— 315 John Josselyn (c. 1610–post 1692) 315 from New-England's Rarities Discovered 315 John Saffin (1626-1710) 315 Acrostic on Mrs. Winifret Griffin 316 Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) 316 from Poetical Meditations x Contents Contents xi 317 Mazy Rowlandson (1636-1678) 318 from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson from The Psalm Paraphrases Version 1, Psalm 1 Version 2, Psalm 19 from Gods Determinations 349 The Preface 414 422 363 365 366 366 2,67 368 369 369 370 373 from Occasional Poems attended from [Proposal concerning reforming societies] 423 John Williams (1664-1729) 425 from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion The Pueblo Indian Revolt and Spanish Reconquest, 1680-1692 432 Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 (Doti Antonio de Otermin) 440 Letter on The Reconquest of New Mexico (Don Diego de Vargas) Preparatory Meditations, First Series Prologue 16.] Another Meditation at the same time 20. Meditation, Phil. 2.9. God hath highly Exalted from 1. Preparatory Meditations, Second Series him Meditation. Col. 2.17. Which are Shaddows of things to come and the body is Christs Meditation 24. Joh. 1.14. Tabernacled amongst us Meditation 26, Heb. 9.13. 14. How much more shall the Christ, etc. blood of 376 50. Meditation. Joh. 1.14. Full of Truth 60[13]. from Colonial Period: 1700 1800 - 470 447 American Voices in a Changing World 43. Rom. 9.5. God blessed forever Meditation. Cor. 10.4. And all drunk the same spirituall drinke A Valediction to all the World preparator y for Death 3 d the 11 m 1720, Version 1 of 379 Cant. 3. Valediction, to the Terrqueous Globe 382 Cant. 4. A Suite to Christ here upon 384 A Fig for thee Oh! Death, Version 2 385 Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) 387 from The Diary of Samuel Sewall 399 Cotton Mather (1663-1728) 401 from The Wonders of the Invisible World 401 403 422 6. Upon Wedlock, & Death of Children 7. The Ebb & Flow Meditation 379 from Bonifacius . . . With Humble Proposals . . . to Do Good in 431 2. Upon a Spider Catching a Fly 4. Huswifery 374 377 A General Introduction Galeacius Secundus: The Life of William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony from The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America: Or, The Life of the Renowned John Eliot the World 350 The Souls Groan to Christ for Succour 351 z Christs Reply 354 An Extasy of Joy let in by this Reply returnd in Admiration 357 Some of Satans Sophestry 360 The Joy of Church Fellowship rightly 361 361 363 from Magnalia Christi Americana; or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England 406 408 342 Edward Taylor (1642?-1729) 346 346 347 349 406 [The Devil Attacks the People of God] V. The Trial of Martha Carrier at The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held by Adjournme n t at Salem, August 2, 1692 472 Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) 473 The Journal of Madam Knight 491 William Byrd II (1674-1744) 492 496 from History of the Dividing Line Run in the Year 1728 from Secret History of the Dividing Line 512 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) 516 Resolutions 521 from Diary 527 A Divine and Supernatural Light 540 from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God 544 from Personal Narrative 555 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 567 from Freedom of the Will 570 from Miscellanies: Happiness, Millenium, Morality, Religion 576 To the Trustees of the College of New Jersey at Princeton Contents • xiii 579 581 Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) from Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Written by Herself 590 John Woolman (1720-1772) 593 604 from The Journal of John Woolman from Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes 611 614 614 631 642 Ebenezer Cook (1667-1733) Richard Lewis (1700?-1734) Poetry before the Revolution—A Collection of Poetry by Women Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735) Bridget Richardson Fletcher (1726-1770) 644 Hymn XXXVI. The Greatest Dignity of a Woman, Christ Being Born of One 644 Hymn LXX. The Duty of Man and Wife 646 655 Bars Fight 655 Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) 656 To Laura 656 To the Same 657 An Extempore Ode in a Sleepless Night by a Lady Attending on Her Husband in a Long and Painful Illness 658 Milcah Martha Moore (1740-1829) 658 The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America, 1768 The Sot-weed Factor; or, a Voyage to Maryland, etc. 642 [Lines on Childbirth] 643 Lucy Terry (1730-1821) Poetry before the Revolution—English Forms in an American Idiom 632 A Journey from Patapsko to Annapolis, April 4, 1730 641 654 Hannah Grails (1727-1817) 646 On Reading Some Paragraphs in "The Crisis," April, '77 On the Death of John Roberts and Abraham Carlisle, November 4th, 1778 647 659 Martha Brewster (1710—post 1759) 660 from An Essay on the Four Ages of Man, Resembling the Four Seasons of the Year A Farewell to Some of My Christian Friends at Goshen, in Lebanon. April 5th, 1745 660 663 Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752-1783) 663 Written in the Retreat From Burgoyne 665 On the Immensity of Creation 665 Anna Young Smith (1756-1780) 666 A Song 667 An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers, who Fell in the Engagement Between the Massachusetts-Bay Militia, and the British Troops. April 19, 1775 669 Sarah Wentworth Morton (1759-1846) Stanzas to a Husband Recently United The African Chief 672 Ode Inscribed to Mrs. M. Warren 674 Memento, for My Infant Who Lived But Eighteen Hours 649 Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) 669 670 649 650 To a Young Lady A Thought On the Inestimable Blessing of Reason, Occasioned By Its Privation To a Friend of Very Superior Talents and Virtues, 1770 674 Poems Published Anonymously 652 653 To Mrs. Montague, Author of "Observations On the Genius and Writings of Shakespeare" To Fidelio, Long Absent On the Great Public Cause, Which Agitated All America, In 1776 674 The Lady's Complaint 675 Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to be Controll'd! 676 The Maid's Soliloquy 677 Impromptu, on Reading an Essay on Education By a Lady Contents • xv 678 Emerging Voices of a National Literature: African, Native American, Spanish, Mexican 679 Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?) 680 682 An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries An ADDRESS to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston, who came from Africa at eight years of age, and soon became acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ 762 763 763 Francisco Palou (1723-1789) from Life of Junipero Serra from Chapter XXII: The Expeditions Arrive at the Port of Monterey— The Mission and Presidio of San Carlos are Founded 685 Prince Hall (1735?-1807) 686 To the Honorable Council 8c House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts-Bay in General Court assembled January 13th 1777 A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy 688 756 Fray Carlos Jose Delgado (1677–post 1750) 757 Report made by Rev. Father Fray Carlos Delgado to our Rev. Father Ximeno concerning the abominable hostilities and tyrannies of the governors and alcaldes mayores toward the Indians, to the consternation of the custodia. The year 1750 694 Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano) (1745-1797) 695 from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or 766 from Chapter LVIII: The Exemplary Death of the Venerable Father Junipero 771 773 Two Mexican-American Oral Tales The Llorona, Malinche, and Unfaithful Maria The Devil Woman 774 Enlightenment Voices, Revolutionary Visions 771 Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself, Chapters 2, 3, 7 712 Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) 714 716 717 718 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770 On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771 To a Lady on the Death of her Husband On Being Brought from Africa to America 718 On Imagination 720 To the University of Cambridge, in New England 721 Philis's Reply to the Answer in our Last by the Gentleman in the Navy 722 To His Excellency General Washington .724 Liberty and Peace 726 To the Rt. Hon'ble the Countess of Huntingdon 726 To the Right Hon'ble/The Earl of Dartmouth per favour of/Mr. Wooldridge 727 The following is an extract of a letter from Phillis, a Negro girl of Mr. Wheatley's, of this town; to the Rev. Samson Occom, dated the 11th of February, 1774 728 Samson Occom (1723-1792) 730 A Short Narrative of My Life 736 A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom 751 752 Hendrick Aupaumut (?-1830) from A Short Narration of my Last Journey to the Western Country Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 780 from Poor Richard's Almanacks 784 The Way to Wealth .790 A Witch Trial at Mount Holly 791 The Speech of Polly Baker 793 Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. To my riend A.B. 794 from A Narrative of the Late Massacres 806 An Edict by the King of Prussia 810 Information to Those Who Would Remove to America 815 Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America S19 On the Slave-Trade 821 Speech in the Convention 823 from The Autobiography 776 F 823 871 Part One Part Two: Continuation of the Account of My Life, Begun at Passy 1784 John Leacock (1729-1802) the Times 884 from. The First Book of the American Chronicles of Chapter 3: Obadiah (John Hancock) challenges the Gageite from 884 882 (Thomas Gage) 884 887 with from Chapters 3 and 4: Jedediah the Priest (Rev. Samuel Cooper), Mother Carey's aid, speaks with the ghost of Oliver Cromwell from The Fall of British Tyranny; Or, American Liberty Triumphant: Song, The First of May, to St. Tammany contents • xvu xvi Contents 890 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) 892 from Letters from an American Farmer from Letter II: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American 892 Farmer 895 from Letter III: What Is an American? from Letter IX: Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on 899 Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene from Letter MI: Distresses of a Frontier Man 908 925 John Adams (1735-1826) Abigail Adams (1744 1818) 926 from Autobiography of John Adams :930 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 930 Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 931 Letter from John Adams to James Sullivan, May 26, 1776 931 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778 932 Letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush, December 25, 1811 933 Abigail Adam's Diary of her Return Voyage to America, 30 March1 May 1788 - 936 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 937 940 from An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex from Common Sense Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 940 946 from The American Crisis, Number 1 951 from The Age of Reason Chapter I: The Author's Profession of Faith 951 953 from Chapter II: Of Missions and Revelations from Chapter III: Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ 'and His 954 'History" 955 from Chapter VI: Of the True Theology 957 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 960 from The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, 960 in General Congress Assembled 964 from Notes on the State of Virginia Query IV: Mountains, the Shenandoah and Potomac 964 Query V: Cascades, the Natural Bridge 965 Query VI: Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the 965 Theory of degeneracy Query XI: Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin 969 Query XVIII: Manners . . . Effect of Slavery 970 971 First Inaugural Address 975 Letters To Martha Jefferson, Nov. 28, 1783 975 To James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785 976 To James Madison, December 20, 1787 978 981 982 984 987 987 990 To Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791 To Dr. Benjamin Rush, with a Syllabus, April 21, 1803 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808 To Henri Gregoire, February 25, 1809 To John Adams, June 11, 1812 To John Adams, October 28, 1813 994 Patriot and Loyalist Songs and Ballads The Liberty Song 997 The Irishman's Epistle 998 Alphabet 999 Yankee Doodle 1001 Nathan Hale 1002 Volunteer Boys 1004 Burrowing Yankees 1004 A Song 1005 An Appeal 996 1007 1008 1013 1018 The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers The Federalist No. 6 (Alexander Hamilton) The Federalist No. 10 (James Madison) An Anti-Federalist Paper (Centinel) 1922 United Voices, a National Literature 1024 Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) 1027 Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of encouraging a degree of Self-Complacency, especially in FEMALE BOSOMS 1030 On the DOMESTIC EDUCATION of CHILDREN 1032 On the EQUALITY of the SEXES 1039 Occasional Epilogue to the Contrast; a Comedy, Written by Royal Tyler, Esq. 1042 Philip Freneau (1752-1832) 1044 The Power of Fancy 1048 A Political Litany 1049 from The House of Night, A Vision 1059 To Sir Toby 1061 The Hurricane 1062 The Wild Honey Suckle 1063 To An Author 1065 On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature 1066 On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple 1067 The Indian Burying Ground 1068 On the causes of Political Degeneracy XVIII Contents ■.... 1071 Joel Barlow (1754-1812) 1073 The Prospect of Peace 1078 The Hasty Pudding, A Poem, in Three Cantos 1087 Advice to a Raven in Russia 1089 Royall Tyler (1757-1826) 1091 The Contrast, A Comedy in Five Acts 1131 1133 Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton 1153 1154 1154 1155 1157 1158 1159 1160 1161 1162 Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762-1824) from Charlotte, A Tale of Truth from Preface from Chapter II: Domestic Concerns from Chapter XII from Chapter XIV: Maternal Sorrow from Chapter XV: Embarkation from Chapter XVII: A Wedding from Chapter =CM: Which People Void of Feeling Need Not Read from Chapter XXXIV: Retribution 1163 Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) 1165 Somnambulism, A fragment Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865 1214 1179 Myths, Tales, and Legends 1216 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841) 1217 Mishosha, or the Magician and His Daughters 1222 The Forsaken Brother 1225 David Cusick (?-1840) 1226 from Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations 1226 A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North America;— the Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe . 1228 Tales from the Hispanic Southwest 1230 La comadre sebassebastiana/tona SebasSebastian 1232 Los tres hermanos/The Three Brothers [continued]