ISBN
0394507967
Statement of Responsibility
selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
Publication Information
New York : Pantheon Books
Physical Description
xv, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents
- Part One -- Rabbit Boy Kicked That Blood Clot Around: Tales of Human Creation -- Rabbit Boy (White River Sioux) -- Blood Clot (Southern Ute) -- Corn Mother (Penobscot) -- Creation of the Animal People (Okanogan) -- Stone Boy (Brule Sioux) -- The Powerful Boy (Seneca) -- Glooscap and the Baby (Algonquian) -- The Old Woman of the Spring (Cheyenne) -- Arrow Boy (Cheyenne) -- The Great Medicine Dance (Cheyenne) -- The Origin of Curing Ceremonies (White Mountain Apache) -- Creation of First Man and First Woman (Navajo) -- How Men and Women Got Together (Blood-Piegan) -- The Well-Baked Man (Pima) -- The White Buffalo Woman (Brule Sioux) -- The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog (Blackfoot) -- Salt Woman Is Refused Food (Cochiti) -- The Sacred Weed (Blackfoot) -- How Grandfather Peyote Come to the Indian People (Brule Sioux) -- The Vision Quest (Brule Sioux) --
- 5050_ |a Part Two -- The Place of Emergence: Tales of World Creation -- The Good Twin and the Evil Twin (Yuma) -- The Jicarilla Genesis (Jicarilla Apache) -- When Grizzlies Walke Upright (Modoc) -- Old Man Coyote Makes the World (Crow) -- How the Sioux Came to Be (Brule Sioux) -- Pushing Up the Sky (Snohomish) -- Emerging Into the Upper World (Acoma) -- Earth Making (Cherokee) -- The Earth Dragon (Northern California Coast) -- People Brought in a Basket (Modoc) -- Great Medicine Makes a Beautiful Country (Cheyenne) -- The White Dawn of the Hopi (Hopi) -- Creation of the Yakima World (Yakima) -- Children of the Sun (Osage) -- The Voice, the Flood, and the Turtle (Caddo) -- A Tale of Elder Brother (Pima) --
- 5050_ |a Part Three -- The Eye of the Great Spirit: Tales of the Sun, Moon, and Stars -- Sun Creation (Brule Sioux) -- Walks-All-Over-The-Sky (Tsimshian) -- Three-Legged Rabbit Fights the Sun (Western Rockies) -- Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon (Zuni) -- Keeping Warmth in a Bag (Slavey) -- The Hopi Boy and the Sun (Hopi) -- A Gust of Wind (Ojibway) -- Daughter of the Sun (Cherokee) -- Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun (Cherokee) -- The Story of the Creation (Diegueños) -- The Foolish Girsl (Ojibway) -- Moon Rapes His Sister Sun (Inuit) -- Sun Teaches Veeho a Lesson (Cheyenne) -- Little Brother Snares the Sun (Winnebago) -- The Scabby One Lights the Sky (Toltec) -- Playing a Trick on the Moon (Snoqualmie) -- The Theft of Light (Tsimshian) -- Coyote Places the Stars (Wasco) -- Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (Tewa) --
- 5050_ |a Part Four -- Ordeals of the Hero: Monsters and Monster Slayers -- Glooscap Fights the Water Monster (Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliseet) -- Little-Man-With-Hair-All-Over (Métis) -- How Mosquitos Came to Be (Tlingit) -- Hiawatha the Unifier (Iroquois) -- The Life and Death of Sweet Medicine (Northern Cheyenne) -- The Quillwork Girl and Her Seven Star Brothers (Cheyenne) -- Rolling Head (Wintu) -- Son of Light Kills the Monster (Hopi) -- The Coming of Thunder (Miwok) -- Wakinyan Tanka, The Great Thunderbird (Brule Sioux) -- Coyote Kills the Giant (Flathead) -- A Legend of Devil's Tower (Sioux) -- The Flying Head (Iroquois) -- The First Ship (Chinook) -- Chase of the Severed Head (Cheyenne) -- Uncegila's Seventh Spot (Brule Sioux) --
- 5050_ |a Part Five -- Counting Coup: War and the Warrior Code -- Little Mouse Counting Coup (Brule Sioux) -- Two Bullets and Two Arrows (Brule Sioux) -- A Cheyenne Blanket (Pawnee) -- The Warrior Maiden (Oneida) -- The Siege of Courthouse Rock (White River Sioux) -- Chief Roman Nose Loses His Medicine (White River Sioux) -- Brave Woman Counts Coup (White River Sioux) -- Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (White River Sioux) -- Where the Girl Saved Her Brother (Cheyenne) -- Tatanka Iyotake's Dancing Horse (Brule Sioux) --
- 5050_ |a Part Six -- The Sound of Flutes: Tales of Love and Lust -- The Legend of the Flute (Brule Sioux) -- Teaching the Mudheads How to Copulate (Zuni) -- The Fight for a Wife (Aleut) -- Teeth in the Wrong Places (Ponca-Otoe) -- The Stolen Wife (Tewa) -- Tolowim Woman and Butterfly Man (Maidu) -- Apache Chief Punishes His Wife (Tiwa) -- The Husband's Promise (Tewa) -- The Man Who Married the Moon (Isleta Pueblo) -- Why Mole Lives Underground (Cherokee) -- A Legend of Multinomah Falls (Multinomah) -- The Industrious Daughter Who Would Not Marry (Cochiti) -- The Woman Who Married a Merman (Coos) -- Coyote's Strawberry (Crow) -- The Faithful Wife and the Woman Warrior (Tiwa) -- Coyote and the Mallard Ducks (Nez Percé) -- The Greedy Father (Karok) -- Kulshan and His Two Wives (Lumni [sic]) -- Men and Women Try Living Apart (Sia) -- A Contest for Wives (Cochiti) -- The Serpent of the Sea (Zuni) --
- 5050_ |a Part Seven -- Coyote Laughs and Cries: Trickster Tales -- Coyote, Iktome, and the Rock (White River Sioux) -- What's This? My Balls for Your Dinner? (White River Sioux) -- Coyote and Wasichu (Brule Sioux) -- How Beaver Stole Fire From the Pines (Nez Percé) -- The Raven (Athapascan) -- The Bluebird and Coyote (Pima) -- Adventures of Great Rabbit (Algonquian) -- Turkey Makes the Corn and Coyote Plants It (White River Sioux) -- Coyote Takes Water From the Frog People (Kalapuya) -- How the People Got Arrowheads (Shasta) -- Iktome and the Ignorant Girl (Brule Sioux) -- Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (White Mountain Sioux) -- Always-Living-At-The-Coast (Kwakiutl) -- Glooscap Grants Three Wishes (Algonquian) -- Coyote's Rabbit Chase (Tewa) -- Coyote Gets Rich Off the White Men (White Mountain Apache) -- Iktome Sleeps With His Wife By Mistake (Brule Sioux) -- How to Scare a Bear (Tewa) -- Coyote Steals Sun's Tobacco (White Mountain Apache) -- Doing a Trick With Eyeballs (Northern Cheyenne) -- Iktome Has a Bad Dream (Brule Sioux) -- How Coyote Got His Cunning (Karok) -- Coyote and the Two Frog Women (Alsea) -- Coyote Dances With a Star (Cheyenne) --
- 5050_ |a Part Eight -- Four Legs, Two Legs, and No Legs: Stories of Animals and Other People -- The Great Race (Cheyenne) -- Origin of th Gnawing Beaver (Haida) -- How the Crow Came to Be Black (Brule Sioux) -- The Girl Who Married Rattlesnake (Pomo) -- Why the Owl Has Big Eyes (Iroquois) -- The Owl Husband (Passamaquoddy) -- The Dogs Hold an Election (Brule Sioux) -- The Snake Brothers (Brule Sioux) -- Butterflies (Papago) -- The Revenge of Blue Corn Ear Maiden (Hopi) -- The Meeting of the Wild Animals (Tsimshian) -- A Fish Story (Tewa) -- The Neglectful-Mother (Cochiti) -- The Bear and His Indian Wife (Haida) -- Wakiash and the First Totem Pole (Kwakiutl) --
- 5050_ |a Part Nine -- Something Whistling in the Night: Ghosts and the Spirit World -- Two Ghostly Lovers (Brule Sioux) -- The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing (Brule Sioux) -- The Land of the Dead (Serrano) -- The Double-Faced Ghost (Cheyenne) -- A Journey to the Skeleton House (Hopi) -- The Skeleton Who Fell Down Piece By Piece (Isleta Pueblo) -- The Spirit Wife (Zuni) -- The Transformed Grandmother (Pima-Papago) -- Big Eater's Wife (Pequod) -- The Origin of the Hopi Snake Dance (Tewa) -- Blue Jay Visits Ghost Town (Chinook) -- The Ghost Wife (Brule Sioux) --
- 5050_ |a Part Ten -- Only the Rocks and Mountains Last Forever: Visions of the End -- Woman Chooses Death (Blackfoot) -- Coyote and the Origin of Death (Caddo) -- The Flood (Haida) -- The Seer Who Would Not See (Pima) -- The Elk Spirit of Lost Lake (Wasco) -- The Death of Head Chief and Young Mule (Northern Cheyenne) -- The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee (Brule Sioux) -- The Gnawing (Cheyenne) -- The End of the World (White River Sioux) -- Montezuma and the Great Flood (Papago) -- The Buffalo Go (Kiowa) -- The Coming of Wasichu (Brule Sioux) -- Remaking the World (Brule Sioux)
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