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The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul
by Lois J. Einhorn. 165 pgs.

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Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs. Because American Indians existed without written language for many generations, their culture was strongly dependent on an oral tradition for continuity and preservation. Not surprisingly, they spent many hours perfecting the art of oral communication and learning methods for committing their messages to memory. Einhorn thoroughly examines the important aspects of this unique oral tradition from a rhetorical perspective, covering individual speakers, nations, and time periods.

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Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Cultural Assumptions Reflecting and Refining the Oral Tradition

2: Imbuing the Earth with Imagery

3: Speeches of Peace and Protest

4: Stories Planting Sage for the Soul

5: Prayers and Songs of Celebration and Purification

6: The Importance of the Oral Tradition

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Index

About the Author
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Indian Story and Song from North America
by Alice C. Fletcher. 132 pgs.

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The present book, Indian Story and Song from North America (1900), was inspired by enthusiasm for Native American music generated at the Congress of Musicians held in connection with the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, July 1898.

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Introduction

Bibliography

Preface.

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Story and Song of The He-Dhu'-Shka.

Story and Song of the Bird's Nest.

A Trysting Love-Song.

Story and Song of the Death- Less Voice.

Story and Song of Zon-Zi'-Mon-De.

The Story and Song of the Wren.

Love Call.

A Game Song from the North- West Coast.

Story and Song of the Indian Coquet.

The Old Man's Love-Song.

Story of the We'-Ton Song.

A Pawnee Love Song

A Warrior's Story and Song.

Sacred Songs of Peace.

Comporting the Child

Indian Story and Song

Indian Story and Song

Music in Indian Life
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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
by Frank B. Linderman. 260 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

Introduction

Why the Chipmunk's- Back is Striped

How the Ducks Got Their Fine Feathers

Why the Kingfisher Always Wears a War-Bonnet

Why the Curlew's Bill is Long and Crooked

Old-Man Remakes the World

Why Blackfeet Never Kill Mice

How the Otter Skin Became Great "Medicine"

Old-Man Steals the Sun's Leggings

Old-Man and His Conscience

Old-Man's Treachery

Why the Night-Hawk's Wings Are Beautiful

Why the Mountain-Lion is Long and Lean

The Fire-Leggings

The Moon and the Great Snake

Why the Deer Has No Gall

Why the Indians Whip the Buffalo-Berries from the Bushes

Old-Man and the Fox

Why the Birch-Tree Wears the Slashes in Its Bark

Mistakes of Old-Man

How the Man Found His Mate

Dreams

Retrospection
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
by George Bird Grinnell. 318 pgs.

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INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES

STORIES OF ADVENTURE

The Peace with the Snakes

The Lost Woman

Adventures of Bull Turns Round

Ku+-0016c-O'-Yis

The Bad Wife

The Lost Children

Mik-A'Pi--Red Old Man

Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman

The Wolf-Man

The Fast Runners

Two War Trails

Scarface: ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE LODGE

Origin of the I-Kun-Uh'-Kah-Tsi1

Origin of the Medicine Pipe

The Beaver Medicine

The Buffalo Rock

Origin of the Worm Pipe

The Ghosts' Buffalo

STORIES OF OLD MAN

The Blackfoot Genesis

The Dog and the Stick

The Bears

The Wonderful Bird

The Race

The Bad Weapons

The Elk

Old Man Doctors

The Rock

The Theft from the Sun

The Fox

Old Man and the Lynx

THE STORY OF THE THREE TRIBES

The Past and the Present

Daily Life and Customs

Social Organization

The Blackfoot in War

Religion

Medicine Pipes and Healing

The Blackfoot of To-Day

INDEX

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Shoshone Tales
by Anne M. Smith. 224 pgs.

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Set primarily in the legendary past when animals had the power of speech and established human custom through their adventures (and misadventures), these informative and entertaining myths add immeasurably to the unique record of Western Shoshone oral tradition.

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Foreword

Notes

References Cited

Gosiute Tales

Western Shoshone Tales

Afterword
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Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales: With Notes on the Origin, Customs, and Character of the Pawnee People
by George Bird Grinnell. 418 pgs.

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Introduction to the Bison Book Edition

Note.

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The Pawnees and Their Stories.

Hero Stores.

Comanche Chief. the Peace-Maker.

Lone Chief. Skurʹ-Ar-A Leʹ-Shar.

The Prisoners of Court House Rock.

Wolves in the Night.

A Leader of Soldiers.

A Cheyenne Blanket.

Little Warrior's Counsel.

A Comanche Bundle.

Folk-Tales.

The Dun Horse.

A Story of Faith.

The Bear Man.

The Ghost Wife.

Ti-Ke-Wa-Kush. the Man Who Called the Buffalo.

Pa-Hu-Kaʹ-Tawa.

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed.

The Snake Brother.

Oʹre-Ka-Rahr.

The Ghost Bride.

The Boy Who Saw A-Ti'-Us.

How the Deer Lost His Gall.

Yellow Fox.

Notes on the Pawnees.

Note.

The Pawnees.

Pawnee Customs.

The Pawnee in War.

Religion.

Later History.

Index.
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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians (1929)
by John R. Swanton. 275 pgs.

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Letter of Transmittal

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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians

Creek Stories

Hitchiti Stories

Alabama Stories

Koasati Stories

Natchez Stories

Comparison of Myths
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Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi
by Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma. 344 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

1: Coyote and Porcupine

2: Coyote and Water Serpent

3: Coyote and Badger

4: Coyote and the Spiders

4: Coyote and the Spiders

5: Coyote and Wren

6: Coyote and the Blue Jays

8: Coyote and the Turkeys

8: Coyote and the Turkeys

10: Coyote and the Bird Girls

10: Coyote and the Bird Girls

14: Coyote and the Navajo

15: Coyote on a Salt Expedition

16: Coyote and Pavayoykyasi

17: The Coyote Chain

18: Coyote Learns Sorcery

20: Coyote and the Korowiste Kachinas

21: Coyote Boy Marries a Girl from Musangnuvi

Glossary

The Hopi Alphabet
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Turkey Brother, and Other Tales: Iroquois Folk Stories
by Joseph Bruchac. 64 pgs.

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The Coming of Legends

Three Tales about Turtle

Turtle's Race with Beaver

Turtle's Race with Bear

Turtle Makes War on Men

How Bear Lost His Tail

Battle with the Snakes

Two: Feathers and Turkey Brother

The Boy Who Lived With The Bears

The Porcupine Clan
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Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians
by Morris Edward Opler, David French. 144 pgs.

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Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an account of the world destroyed by water to descriptions of puberty rites and wonderful contests. The exploits of culture heroes involve the slaying of monsters and the assistance of Coyote. A large part of the book is devoted to the irrepressible Coyote, whose antics make cautionary tales for the young, tales that also allow harmless expression of the taboo. Other striking stories present supernatural beings and 'foolish people.'

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Introduction to the Bison Book Edition

Preface

Table of Contents

I. When the Earth Was New

Ii. the Contest for Daylight

Iii. the Coyote Cycle and Other Animal, Bird, and Insect Tales

Iv. Stories of Supernatural Beings And Encounters with Supernaturals

V. Stories of Foolish People, Unfaithfulness, and Perversion

Vi. Miscellaneous

Appendix: Comparative Notes on Chiricahua Apache Mythology

Bibliography
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Hopi Animal Tales
by Michael Lomatuway'ma, Lorena Lomatuway'ma, Sidney Namingha, Ekkehart Malotki. 564 pgs.

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This original & informative collection features animal figures from thirty Hopi tales. Field Mouse, Coyote the Trickster, Cicada & his flute, Medicine Man Badger, the Chipmunk Girls & Antelope Kids, & other manifestations of serpents, insects, & birds appear in these ancient folk tales, traditionally told in mid-winter, when the nights are long & cold & all the crops are in. Highly entertaining, the narratives reveal attitudes toward important aspects of Hopi culture, such as courtship, relations between the sexes, friendship, courage, industry, healing, & the treatment of children. The editor has compiled & meticulously edited Hopi & English versions of the tales in this bilingual edition. An introduction by a distinguished folklore scholar examines the cultural relevance of Hopi oral narratives & draws upon recent scholarly perspectives on folktales to place the tales within a wider, comparative context.

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Preface

References

Introduction: Folklore and the Hopi Animal Tales

The Tales

1: The Man and the Ants

2: How Field Mouse Helped the People of Mishongnovi

3: Medicine Man Badger

4: How the Coyotes Celebrated the Bean Dance

5: The Firefly

6: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Medicine Man

7: The Mistreated Cats

8: Coyote and Bee

9: The Chipmunk Girls Who Ground Pinyon Nuts

10: The Flood at Wuukopaqlö

11: Crow and Hawk

12: Coyote and the Ducks

13: How the Ants Initiated Their Children into the Kachina Society

14: How the Hopis Got Fire

15: How Coyote Became Infatuated with Girls

16: The Cicadas and the Serpents

17: The House Mice and the Boy from Huk'Ovi

18: Coyote and the Lice

19: The Deer Mice

20: How Mockingbird Took a Wife

21: The Owl That Made off with a Little Child

22: How Coyote and Hummingbird Satirized Bat in a Song

23: How Weasel Befriended the Moon

24: Sand Cricket

25: Why the Pocket Mice Staged a Dance

26: Coyote and Badger as Food Robbers

27: The Crying Cicada

28: The Gambling Boy Who Married a Bear Girl

29: The Antelope Kids

30: Wren and Bullsnake

Appendix I: Glossary

Appendix Ii: Alphabet
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Seneca Myths and Folk Tales
by Arthur C. Parker. 520 pgs.

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Introduction to The Bison Book Edition

Notes

Foreword

Introduction

Phonetic Key.

Fundamental Factors In Seneca Folk-Lore

Themes and Materials

The Atmosphere in Which The Legends Were Told

When the World Was New

Boys Who Defied Magic And Overcame It

Tales of Love and Marriage

Horror Tales of Cannibals And Sorcerers

Tales of Talking Animals

Tales of Giants, Pygmies And Monster Bears

Traditions

Appendix

Bibliography

Index
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Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold
by Charles A. Eastman, Elaine Goodale Eastman. 272 pgs.

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Introduction

First Evening the Buffalo and the Field-Mouse

Second Evening the Frogs and the Crane

Third Evening the Eagle and the Beaver

Fourth Evening the War-Party

Fifth Evening the Falcon and the Duck

Sixth Evening the Raccoon and the Bee-Tree

Seventh Evening the Badger and the Bear

Eighth Evening the Good-Luck Token

Ninth Evening Unktomee and His Bundle of Songs

Tenth Evening: Unktomee and the Elk

Eleventh Evening the Festival of the Little People

Twelfth Evening: Eya the Devourer

Thirteenth Evening the Wars of Wa-Kee-Yan and Unk-Tay-Hee

Fourteenth Evening: The Little Boy Man

Fifteenth Evening the Return of the Little Boy Man

Sixteenth Evening the First Battle

Seventeenth Evening the Beloved of the Sun

Eighteenth Evening Wood-Chopper and Berry-Picker

Nineteenth Evening the Son-In-Law

Twentieth Evening the Comrades

Twenty-First Evening the Laugh-Maker

Twenty-Second Evening the Runaways

Twenty-Third Evening the Girl Who Married the Star

Twenty-Fourth Evening North Wind and Star Boy

Twenty-Fifth Evening the Ten Virgins

Twenty-Sixth Evening the Magic Arrows

Twenty-Seventh Evening the Ghost Wife
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Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
by William M. Clements. 274 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

Indian Eloquence

Notes

Historical and Mythological Traditions of the Algonquins; with a Translation of the "Walum-Olum," or Bark Record of the Linni-Lenape

Notes

Mental Character of the Aborigines

Notes

The Myths of Manibozho and Ioskeha

Notes

The Poetry of Indians

Notes

The Morning Star: an Indian Superstition

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The Zuñi Social, Mythic, and Religious Systems

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A Huron Historical Legend

Notes

Mythology of the Dakotas

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The Edda Among the Algonquin Indians by Charles Godfrey Leland

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An Evening in Camp Among the Omahas

Some Deities and Demons of the Navajos

Notes

The Borrowed Myths of America

Notes

Development of a Pawnee Myth

Notes

The "Montezuma" of the Pueblo Indians

Notes

The Sioux Mythology

Notes

Northern Elements in the Mythology of the Navaho

Notes

The Scientific Importance of the Folk-Music of Our Aborigines

Notes

Indian Superstitions and Legends

Notes

Traditions of Descent

Editor's Introduction.

Notes

The Red Indian Imagination

Notes
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Nebraska Folklore (Discusses Native American folklore in multiple chapters)
by Louise Pound. 244 pgs.

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Included are Nebraska folk customs as well as studies of the origins of American cowboy and folk songs and of the use of dialect in folklore. Its wit and honesty will appeal to readers everywhere.

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Foreword

Nebraska Cave Lore

Nebraska Snake Lore

Nebraska Rain Lore And Rain Making

The Nebraska Legend Of Weeping Water

Nebraska Legends Of Lovers' Leaps

The Legend Of The Lincoln Salt Basin

The John G. Maher Hoaxes

Nebraska Strong Men

Nebraska's Antoine Barada Again

Olof Bergstrom: Swedish Pioneer

The Southwestern Cowboy Songs And English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Yet Another Joe Bowers

Some Old: Nebraska Folk Customs

Appendix
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Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest (Discusses Native American folklore in multiple chapters)
by Katharine Berry Judson. 148 pgs.

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These collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest - the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes - were first published in 1910. Here are their stories concerning the creation of the universe, the theft of fire and daylight, the death and rebirth of salmon, and, especially, the formation of such geographical features as The Dalles, the Columbia River, the Yukon River, and Mounts Shasta, Hood, Rainier, Baker, and Adams.

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Introduction

References

Preface

Table of Contents

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The Origin of Daylight

How Silver-Fox Created The World

How Kemush Created the World

The Robe of Kemush

How Qawaneca Created The World

How Old Man Above Created The World

Old Man Above and the Grizzlies

Duration of Life

How Coyote Stole Fire

How Beaver Stole Fire

How Dog Stole Fire

The Bridge of the Gods

The Dalles

The Story of Ashish

Creation of Mankind

As-Ai-Yahal

The Golden Age

The First Totem Pole

Spirit of Snow

Owl and Raven

Cradle Song

Woodrat and Rabbits

Quarrel of Sun and Moon

Chinook Wind

The Miser of Takhoma

Why There Are No Snakes on Takhoma

Cry-Because-He-Had-No-Wife

How Coyote Got His Cunning

The Naming of Creation

The Bird Chief

The Spell of the Laughing Raven

Origin of the Thunder Bird

Mount Edgecomb, Alaska

An Indian's Vow to the Thunder Gods

Chinook Ghosts

The Memaloose Islands

A Visiting Ghost

Origin of the Tribes

How the Okanogans Became Red

The Copper Canoe

Origin of Mineral Springs

How the Ermine Got Its Necklace

Coyote and Grizzly

Coyote and the Dragon

Origin of Spokane Falls

Coyote in the Buffalo Counrty

Coyote and the Salmon

Falls of the Willamette

Tallapus and the Cedar

How Coyote Was Killed

Old Grizzly and Old Antelope

Legend of the Klickitat Basket

The Northern Lights

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