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Native American Tales and Legends
by Allan A. Macfarlan

ISBN: 0486414760
Dover Publications Price: $3.50
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More than 30 stories from a variety of Native American tribes cover creation myths, hero tales, and trickster stories, as well as tales of little people, giants, and monsters, and of magic, enchantment, sorcery, and the spirit world. Included are "The White Stone Canoe" (Chippewa), "Raven Pretends to Build a Canoe" (Tsimhian), many more.


Table of Contents for Native American Tales and Legends
Origins
How the Earth Began (Maidu)
Old Man Makes the Land and the People (Blackfoot)
The Origin of Daylight (Tsimshian)
The Four Winds (Iroquois)
How the Tribes Began (Choctaw)
The Discovery of Fire (Mohawk)
The Origin of the Buffalo and of Corn (Cheyenne)
"Mon-daw-min, or The Origin of Indian Corn (Ojibwa)"
The Origin of Wampum (Onondaga)
The Origin of the Medicine Pipe (Blackfoot)
"Scarface, or The Origin of the Medicine Lodge (Blackfoot)"
The First False Face (Seneca)
Journeys to the Sky
"Iosco, or The Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon (Ottawa)"
Glooscap and The Three Seekers of Gifts (Micmac)
The Boy Who Saw A-ti-us (Pawnee)
"The Star Family, or The Celestial Sisters (Shawnee)"
The Moqui Boy and the Eagle (Pueblo)
The Hermit Thrush (Iroquois)
Men and Women
The Rabbit Huntress and Her Adventures (Zuñi)
The White Stone Canoe (Chippewa)
The Moose Wife (Seneca)
The Origin of Strawberries (Cherokee)
The Maiden of the Yellow Rocks (Zuñi)
"The Story of Minkudawogoosk, The Moosewood Man (Micmac)"
Tricksters
The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting (Cherokee)
The Coyotte (Pueblo)
Raven Pretends to Build a Canoe (Tsimshian)
Animals
"Manstin, the Rabbit (Dakota)"
The Loon's Necklace (Iroquois)
The Origin of the Medicine Society (Seneca)
"Transformations, Sorcery, and the Supernatural"
The Mouse's Children (Cheyenne)
The Theft from the Sun (Blackfoot)
The Dun Horse (Pawnee)

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