Tales of the North American Indians / selected and annotated by Stith Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Stith, author.

Contributor:

Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976, selector, annotator.

Series:

Midland book ; MB-91.

Midland books, MB-91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Folklore.

Folklore

Folklore, Indian.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: folded map ;

Edition:

First Midland book edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1966.

Summary:

Contains ninety-nine folk tales from an assortment of North American indigenous peoples, ranging from the Arapaho to the Zuni. Many tales include animal characters, such as Raven or Coyote. Some tales are Native American versions of stories familiar to English-speakers from the Brothers Grimm and other collections of folklore.

Contents:

Sedna, mistress of the underworld (Eskimo); Sun sister and moon brother (Eskimo); Glooscap (Micmac); Manabozho's birth (Menomini); Manabozho's wolf brother (Menomini); Manabozho plays lacrosse (Menomini); The woman who fell from the sky (Seneca); The beginning of newness (Zuni); Raven becomes voracious (Tsimshian); The theft of light (Tsimshian); The creation (Maidu); The creation (Kato); The lizard-hand (Yokuts); Determination of the seasons (Tahltan); Marriage of the north and the south (Cherokee); Determination of night and day (Iroquois); The theft of fire (Maidu); The sun snarer (Menomini); The man who acted as the sun (Bella Coola); The man in the moon (Lillooet); Origin of the pleiades (Onondaga); The bag of winds (Thompson); The bird whose wings made the wind (Micmac); The release of the wild animals (Comanche); The empounded water (Malecite); The origin of corn (Abanaki); Manbozho's adventures (Ojibwa and Menomini); The trickster's great fall and his revenge (Menomini); The deceived blind men (Menomini); The trickster's race (Blackfoot); The eye-juggler (Cheyenne); The sharpened leg (Cheyenne); The offended rolling stone (Pawnee); The trickster kills the children (Arapaho); Wildcat gets a new face (Uintah Ute); The trickster becomes a dish (Lillooet); Coyote proves himself a cannibal (Jicarilla Apache); The bungling host (Thompson); Coyote and porcupine (Nez Perce); Beaver and porcupine (Tlingit); The big turtle's war party (Skidi Pawnee); The sun tests his son-in-law (Bella Coola); The jealous uncle (Kodiak); Bluejay and his companions (Quinault); Dug-from-ground (Hupa); The attack on the giant elk (Jicarilla Apache); Lodge-boy and thrown-away (Crow); Blood-clot-boy (Blackfoot); The son-in-law tests (Timagami Ojibwa); The jealous father (Cree); Dirty-boy (Okanagon); The false bridegroom (Gros Ventre); The star husband: the wish to marry a star (Timagami Ojibwa); The star husband: the girl enticed to the sky (Arapaho); The stretching tree (Chilcotin); The arrow chain (Tlingit); Mudjikiwis (Plains Cree); Orpheus (Cherokee); The visit to Chief Echo (Tsimshian); The piqued buffalo-wife (Blackfoot).

Bear-woman and deer-woman (Lassik); Splinter-foot-girl (Arapaho); The eagle and whale husbands (Greenland Eskimo); The fox-woman (Labrador Eskimo); The woman stolen by killer-whales (Tahltan); The rolling head (Cheyenne); The bear-woman (Blackfoot); The dog-husband (Quinault); The youth who joined the deer (Thompson); The deserted children (Gos Ventre); The princess who rejected her cousin (Tsimshian); The fatal swing (Osage); The skin-shifting old woman (Wichita); The child and the cannibal (Bella Coola); The cannibal who was burned (Haida); The conquering gambler (Chilcotin); The deceived blind man (Smith Sound Eskimo); The girl who married her brother (Shasta); The swan-maidens (Smith Sound Eskimo); The death of pitch (Tsimshian); The seven-headed dragon (Ojibwa); John the bear (Assiniboin); The enchanted horse (Malecite); Little poucet (Thompson); The white cat (Chilcotin); Cinderella (Zuni); The true bride (Thompson); The magic apples (Penobscot); Making the princess laugh (Micmac); The clever numskull (Micmac); The fox and the wolf (Menomini); The tar baby (Cherokee); The turtle's relay race (Arikara); The peace fable (Wyandot); The ant and the grasshopper (Shuswap); Adam and Eve (Thompson); Noah's flood (Thompson); The tower of Babel (Choctaw); Crossing the red sea (Cheyenne).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Reprint of the work originally published in 1929.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-386).

ISBN:

0-253-07439-8

OCLC:

1423738690

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access