Contents Foreword N. Scott Momaday Introduction. Cry of the Wild Crane: The Call of Forgotten Kinship Alexander Vaschenko Evenk Invocation for Good Fortune: To Nature, When the Earth Turns Green Yeremei Aipin (Khanty) Old Man Moon The Earth's Pain Puzzles of My Childhood Selections from Morning Twilight: A Novel of the Khanty And So Dies My Clan Nadezda Taligina (Khanty) A Portfolio of Ten Drawings Yuri Vaella (Taiga Nenets) At The Bus Stop Watching TV On Things Eternal To the Bear Song of the Reindeer Breeder Eternal Sky The Little Shaman and other Stories Morning at the Lake Fyodor the Hunter New from Vatyegan Camp Galina Keptuke (Evenk) A Discovery The Unexpected Guest Little America Gennady Dyachkov (Yukagir) The Hunter's Son: A One-Act Play Vladimir Sangi (Nivkh) My First Shot Maria Vagatova (Khanty) My Word, My Tongue River Mosum, My Water Dirge for the Land of the Khanty The People of Tuk'yakang Village Stone Soldier An Old Anthill Gennady Raishev (Khanty) Four Black and White Prints Jansi Kimonko (Udegeh) From Where the Sukpai Rushes Along Anna Nerkagi (Tundra Nenets) From The Horde Leonty Taragupta (Khanty) Son of the Sky The Prayer of the Bear Yuri Rytkheu (Chukchee) Kakot's Numbers Evenk Invocation for Good Fortune: To Nature, When the Green Recedes A Note on Translation Claude Clayton Smith Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading.