Old man coyote (Crow) / by Frank B. Linderman ; illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Fred W. Voget.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crow Indians--Folklore.

Crow Indians.

Crow mythology.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

The authorized edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1996]

Summary:

Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend. He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important. The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day southeastern Montana. During long winter evenings by the lodge fire, they enjoyed hearing about the only warrior ever to visit the Bird Country, the Little-people who adopted a lost boy, the two-faced tribe that gambled for keeps, the marriage of Worm-face, and the origin of the buffalo. Wandering through these well-spun tales is the irrepressible Old Man Coyote, sometimes scoring a coup, sometimes getting his comeuppance. Ohio-born Frank B. Linderman (1869-1938) spent his adult life in Montana, first as a trapper, then as a publisher, politician, and businessman. Fred W. Voget is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Portland State University and the author of The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : John Day Company, 1931.

Includes bibliographical references (page 8).

ISBN:

0803279647

OCLC:

35128168