| Description |
xxiii, 386 pages : folded map. ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Midland books, MB-91
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| 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). |
| Note |
Reprint of the work first published in 1929. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore.
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| Subject |
Indians -- Folklore.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous people -- Folklore.
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