Wo'i Bwikam/ Coyote Songs:
Songs from the Yaqui Bow Leaders' Society
edited by Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina
ISBN 0-925904-02-3
1990, poetry
$8

Description:

First published in 1990, this edition is a hand sewn trade paperback. Originally a first printing, several hundred copies were mistakenly bound in the wrong order. Recently discovered in a box in Chax Press's former studio, these copies have been painstakenly unbound,correctly paginated, and hand-sewn with Irish linen thread, making an edition which is an improvement on the original paperback edition, at the same price

Larry Evers is a distinguished teacher and scholar of Native American Literature. He is the Head of the English Department at the University of Arizona.

Felipe S. Molina is a Yoeme (Yaqui) from Arizona. He has a background in native education and literacy, and has been teaching in Yaqui community schools and colleges since 1974. He has worked extensively on documenting and promoting traditional Yoeme language and culture, oral traditions, music, dance, and song, especially the deer songs and dances, on which he has been a consultant for various institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, as well as project co-director at University of Arizona. In 1993-95 he was Principal Investigator on Yoeme ethnobotany with the US National Park Service for Historic Preservation. He has co-authored or co-edited several books and articles on the Yoeme language and worldview and Yaqui coyote and deer songs, including "Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam" (University of Arizona Press, 1987; with L. Evers), and the Comprehensive Yoeme and English Dictionary" (Tucson Unified School District; with D. L. Shaul).