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Indian why stories : sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire / by Frank B. Linderman (Co-skee-see-co-cot) ; illustrated by Charles M. Russell (Cah-ne-ta-wah-see-na-e-ket), the cowboy artist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938, author.
- Series:
- Indigenous Peoples of North America.
- Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Siksika Indians--Folklore.
- Siksika Indians.
- Ojibwa Indians--Folklore.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Cree Indians--Folklore.
- Cree Indians.
- Indian mythology--Montana.
- Indian mythology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Indian why stories
- Place of Publication:
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Contents:
- Why the chipmunk's back is striped
- How the ducks got their fine feathers
- Why the kingfisher always wears a war-bonnet
- Why the curlew's bill is long and crooked
- Old-man remakes the world
- Why Blackfeet never kill mice
- How the otter skin became great "medicine"
- Old-man steals the sun's leggings
- Old-man and his conscience
- Old-man's treachery
- Why the night-hawk's wings are beautiful
- Why the mountain-lion is long and lean
- The fire-leggings
- The moon and the great snake
- Why the deer has no gall
- Why Indians whip the buffalo-berries from the bushes
- Old-man and the fox
- Why the birch-tree wears the slashes in its bark
- Mistakes of Old-man
- How the man found his mate
- Dreams
- Retrospection.
- Notes:
- "Tales told me by the older men of the Blackfeet, Chippewa and Cree tribes"--Preface.
- Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.
- OCLC:
- 260328664
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