Native American storytelling : a reader of myths and legends / edited by Karl Kroeber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Folklore.

Indians of North America.

Indian mythology--North America.

Indian mythology.

Storytelling.

Oral tradition.

North America.

Oral tradition--North America.

Storytelling--North America.

Physical Description:

viii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Contents:

Tewa 14

1 "Where they were living lived Laughing Warrior Girl..." 16

Kalispell 18

2 "A young man (Rabbit) lived with his grandmother. One day he pitied her..." 19

Kathlamet 21

3 "There was a chief of a town. His relatives lived in five towns...." 22

Tillamook 25

4 "Wild Woman was living alone. Her husband, High Class Crane,..." 27

Sioux 39

5 "A man lived with his two wives and a brother. One day the brother..." 41

Origins 45

Cherokee (A) 47

6 "In the beginning there was no fire, and the world was cold, until..." 47

Gros Ventre 49

7 "The people before the present people were wild. They did not know..." 49

Cherokee (B) 52

8 "When I was a boy this is what the old men told me they had heard..." 53

Seneca (A) 60

9 "A long time ago human beings lived high up in what is now called..." 61

Seneca (B) 64

10 "There was a lodge in the forest where very few people ever came,..." 65

Eskimo 67

11 "Two men were trappers. One of them kept catching a lot of groundhogs;..." 69

Cherokee (C) 72

12 "Once when all the people of the settlement were out..." 73

Trickster 75

Three Chinook-Wishram Coyote Tales 77

13 "Coyote heard about two women who had fish..." 78

14 "A certain old man was sitting in the trail with his penis..." 80

15 "Again Coyote travelled up the river. In the water he saw..." 83

Clackamas (A) 86

16 "Coyote and his five children lived there, four males,..." 87

Clackamas (B) 91

17 "They lived there, Seal, her daughter, and Seal's younger brother...." 93

Hopi 95

18 "In Oraibi the people were living. At the west end of the south row..." 97

Wintu 102

19 "Long ago, there came into being some people who had four children,..." 103

Yana 105

20 "'Now dig for roots. The nuts are already ripe

let's climb...'" 107

Navajo 109

21 "On the morrow, when he went forth on his hunt, his father..." 110

Blackfoot 118

22 "'There are two bright stars,' Brings-Down-the-Sun said, 'that sometimes...'" 120

Onondaga 127

23 "Tall, fierce and hostile, they were a powerful tribe, the Stone Giants!..." 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-133) and index.

ISBN:

1405115416

1405115424

OCLC:

53485248