This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales. Legends include stories of sun worship, trickster pranks, the ghost world, and secret societies.
Republication of the Boston, 1916 edition.

Table of Contents for Native American Mythology

Author's Preface
Introduction
I. The Far North
1. Norseman and Skraeling
2. The Eskimo's World
3. The World-Powers
4. The World's Regions
5. The Beginnings
6. Life and Death
II. The Forest Tribes
1. The Forest Region
2. Priest and Pagan
3. The Manitos
4. The Great Spirit
5. The Frame of the World
6. The Powers Above
7. The Powers Below
8. The Elders of the Kinds
III. The Forest Tribes (continued)
1. Iroquoian Cosmogony
2. Algonquian Cosmogony
3. The Deluge
4. The Slaying of the Dragon
5. The Theft of Fire
6. Sun-Myths
7. The Village of Souls
8. Hiawatha
IV. The Gulf Region
1. Tribes and Lands
2. Sun-Worship
3. The New Maize
4. Cosmogonies
5. Animal Stories
6. Tricksters and Wonder-Folk
7. Mythic History
V. The Great Plains
1. The Tribal Stocks
2. An Athapascan Pantheon
3. The Great Gods of the Plains
4. The Life of the World
5. "Medicine"
6. Father Sun
7. Mother Earth and Daughter Corn
8. The Morning Star
9. The Gods of the Elements
VI. The Great Plains (continued)
1. Athapascan Cosmogonies
2. Siouan Cosmogonies
3. Caddoan Cosmogonies
4. The Son of the Sun
5. The Mystery of Death
6. Prophets and Wonder-Workers
7. Migration-Legends and Year-Counts
VII. Mountain and Desert
1. The Great Divide
2. The Gods of the Mountains
3. The World and its Denizens
4. Shahaptian and Shoshonean World-Shapers
5. Coyote
6. Spirits, Ghosts, and Bogies
7. Prophets and the Ghost-Dance
VIII. Mountain and Desert (continued)
1. The Navaho and their Gods
2. The Navaho Genesis
3. The Creation of the Sun
4. Navaho Ritual Myths
5. Apache and Piman Mythology
6. Yuman Mythology
IX. The Pueblo Dwellers
1. The Pueblos
2. Pueblo Cosmology
3. Gods and Katcinas
4. The Calendar
5. The Great Rites and their Myths
6. Sia and Hopi Cosmogonies
7. Zu-i Cosmogony
X. The Pacific Coast, West
1. The California-Oregon T
2. Religion and Ceremonies
3. The Creator
4. Cataclysms
5. The First People
6. Fire and Light
7. Death and the Ghost-World
XI. The Pacific Coast, North
1. Peoples of the North-West Coast
2. Totemism and Totemic Spirits
3. Secret Societies and their Tutelaries
4. The World and its Rulers
5. The Sun and the Moon
6. The Raven Cycle
7. Souls and their Powers
Notes
Bibliography
Plates

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