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Author Kroeber, Karl, 1926-2009.

Title Artistry in Native American myths / Karl Kroeber.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1998]
©1998

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  398.2089 K93A    Check Shelf
Description xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Excerpt from Concerning the League (Iroquois) -- The sand hills (Blackfoot) -- Pulekukwerek and thunder and blood money (Yurok) -- Origin of blood money settlement (Yurok) -- Money eats the sky (Yurok) -- Pulekulwerek institutes blood money (Yurok) -- Scarface (Blackfoot) -- Legend of star boy (Blackfoot) -- Excerpt from Fools Crow (Blackfoot) -- The woman who married the bear (Tlingit) -- The girl and her younger brother (Beaver) -- Bear man (Cherokee) -- Star girl (Kiowa) -- Grizzly woman killed people (Chinook-Clackamas) -- Trickster tales (Winnebago) -- Coyote and prairie dogs (Navajo) -- Coyote and bull (Nez Percé) -- Wasps catch coyote's head in an old horse skull (Lipan Apache) -- Blood-clot boy (Sioux-Dakota) -- What coyote did in this land (Chinook-Wishram) -- How wolf and coyote went away (Chemehuevi) -- Stone boy (Sioux-Dakota) -- The stone boy (Sioux-Lakota).
Subject Indian mythology -- North America.
Legends -- North America.
Animals -- North America -- Folklore.
Tricksters -- North America.
Local Subject Spirituality -- Indigenous -- North America.
ISBN 080322737X cloth alkaline paper
0803277857 pa alkaline paper
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