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The bearskin quiver : a collection of Southwestern American Indian folktales / edited by Gregory McNamee.
Penn Museum Library E98.F6 B437 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Daimon folklore library
- Daimon folklore library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Folklore.
- Indians of North America.
- Oral tradition--North America.
- Oral tradition.
- Tales--North America.
- Tales.
- North America.
- Physical Description:
- 139 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Einsidedeln : Daimon Verlag, [2002]
- Summary:
- Once upon a time, an Apache story tells us, the trickster called Coyote killed a bear so that he could make a suitable quiver for his magical arrows. "You shouldn't have done that", someone warned Coyote. "That skin will only bring you bad luck". And so it has been for Coyote ever since, chased by bears and humans alike. In this charming collection of folktales from long ago, we read of the creation of the world, of the ways of animals, of the beguiling Coyote, of the world in which we live and other worlds that hide just beyond our sight. Drawn from the oral literatures of some twenty South-western American Indian peoples, these stories teach us about the constants of those dry places: about how the clouds form in the sky, how the heat rises from the ground, how the animals move about from one shady spot to another, and how the people once lived their lives. All these stories show us -- as the great anthropologist, Claude Lévi-Strauss, observed -- that folktales are not mere afterthoughts of literature, just pleasant stories to tell around the campfire, but rather valuable tools for reflection upon our own lives.
- Contents:
- Creation
- Genesis - Tohono O'odham 13
- Creation - Chiricahua Apache 15
- Mastahmo Gives the Land - Mojave 17
- The First Days - Hopi 19
- The Hardening of the World - Zuni 20
- A Great Flood - White Mountain Apache 22
- The Bats and the Flood - Chiricahua Apache 24
- The Beginning - Diegueno 25
- Long Sash's Gift - Tewa 26
- The First Corn - Zuni 28
- Cloud's Children - Akimel O'odham 31
- Cloud and Wind - Maricopa 33
- Mother Moon - Tewa 36
- Drinker and Bitter Man - Mojave 38
- The North Wind & the South Wind - Acoma 41
- Animal Ways
- Changing Skins - Paiute 47
- The Girl Who Became a Bear - Jicarilla Apache 48
- How Skunk Fights - Tewa 53
- The Coming of the Buffalo - Jicarilla Apache 56
- The Bat - Havasupai 62
- Turtle Feeds His Children - Akimel O'odham 64
- The Braggart Tortoise - Tohono O'odham 67
- Yellow Eyes - Hopi 70
- Roadrunner - Tohono O'odham 71
- Older Brother and Bat Woman - Chemehuevi 73
- How Bluebird Got Its Color - Akimel O'odham 75
- Hummingbird Saves the Children - Hopi 77
- The Bearskin Quiver - Chiricahua Apache 84
- Coyote Tales
- How Coyote Made the Stars - Akimel O'odham 87
- Coyote and the Otters - Navajo 89
- Killer Coyote - Jicarilla Apache 92
- Coyote and Rabbit - Tohono O'odham 93
- Coyote and Rattlesnake - Zia 95
- Coyote and Turtle - Yaqui 98
- Coyote and the Crows - Tewa 100
- Coyote Goes Hunting - Navajo 102
- A Blessing for the Hunt - Acoma 103
- Coyote and the Quail - Akimel O'odham 104
- This World and Other Worlds
- House Made of Dawn - Navajo 109
- Songs of the Masked Dancers - San Carlos Apache 113
- The First Fire - Yaqui 115
- Corn and Tobacco - Mojave 117
- How Death Came - Akimel O'odham 119
- The Visit of the Dead - Halchidoma 122
- The Abode of Souls - Zuni 123
- The Skeleton House - Hopi 126
- Naughty Grandchildren - Akimel O'odham 131
- Mountain Song - Navajo 133
- Life-Giver Sun - Zuni 135
- The Next World - Tohono O'odham 136.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139).
- ISBN:
- 3856306102
- OCLC:
- 51208348
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