A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends (41 page)

Richard Erdoes and Alfonzo Ortiz
(eds),
American Indian Myths and Legends
, 1984

——
(eds.),
American Indian Trickster Tales
, 1998

Sam D Gill and Irene F Sullivan,
Dictionary of Native American Mythology
, 1992

Bill Grantham,
Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians
, 2002

George Bird Grinnell,
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales: With Notes on the Origin, Customs and Character of the Pawnee People
, 1889

——,
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
, 1892

Ulrich W Hiesinger,
Indian Lives: A Photographic Record from the Civil War to Wounded Knee
, 1994

Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin,
Encyclopedia of Native American Religions
, 2000

Frederick W Hodge
(ed.),
Handbook of American Indians of North Mexico
, 2 Volumes, 1907, 1910

Alvin M Josephy, Jr,
The Indian Heritage of America
, 1968

Alvin M Josephy, Jr,
500 Nations
, 1994

Jon E Lewis,
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans
, 2004

Luther Standing Bear,
Land of the Spotted Eagle
, 1933

Margaret Mead,
The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe
, 1932

James Mooney,
Myths of the Cherokee
, 1995

Howard Norman
(ed.)
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions
, 1998

Michael Leroy Oberg,
Native America: A History
, 2010

Morris Edward Opler,
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
, 1938

Arthur Caswell Parker,
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales
, 1923

Paul Radin,
The Trickster: A Study in Indian Mythology
, 1956

Bill Reid,
The Raven Steals the Light: Native American Tale
, 1984

David B. Rockwell,
Giving Voice to Bear: North American Indian Myths, Rituals, and Images of the Bear
, 1991

Dean Snow,
The American Indians
, 1976

Matilda Coxe Stevenson,
The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies
, 1905

William C. Sturtevant
(ed.),
Handbook of North American Indians
, 1978–2001

Stith Thompson,
Tales of the North American Indians
, 1929

Frederick W. Turner III,
The Portable North American Indian Reader
, 1974

Ruth Underhill,
Red Men’s Religion: Belief and Practices of the Indians North of Mexico
, 1965

Frank Waters,
The Book of the Hopi
, 1963

James Wilson,
The Earth Shall Weep
, 1998

Bill Yenne,
The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Tribes
, 1986

Acagchemem tribe
277–8

afterlife mythology
58–60
,
182–4

agriculture
8
,
9
,
10
,
11–12
,
187
,
236

crop fertility
4
,
12
,
38
,
45

Ahsonnutli
53

Akaiyan and Nopatsis, myth of
112–15

Algon and the Star-maiden, myth of
85–8

Algonquian tribes
6
,
27
,
35
,
66
,
140–1
,
152
,
172
,
285

Beaver Medicine legends
112–15

bird myths
43
,
44

creation myths
41
,
51
,
69

festivals
63–4

Michabo, the Great Hare
51–2

myth of Cloud-carrier and the Star-folk
88–91

myth of day-and-night
130–2

myth of Kutoyis
136–40

myth of Napi and the Buffalo-stealer
133–6

myth of Otter-heart
96–100

myth of Poïa
126–30

myth of Sacred Otter and the Snow-lodge
83–5

myth of Scar-face
123–6

myth of Sokumapi and the Sacred Bear-spear
115–18

myth of the fairy wives
100–5

myth of the Great Bear constellation
111–12

myth of the maize spirit
109–11

myth of the malicious mother-in-law
105–9

myth of the medicine wolf
120–2

myth of the Snow-man husband
91–3

myth of the Spirit-bride
93–6

myth of the Star-maiden
85

myth of the Young Dog Dance
118–20

myths of Glooskap
75–7
,
78–83

Nanabozhoo
141–3

snake/serpent myths
45
,
46
,
47
,
60

ancestral spirits, Inuit
287

angakoks
286–7

animal spirits and myths

creation myths
41
,
51
,
69
,
70
,
188

healing rituals
66–7
,
69

Michabo, the Great Hare
41
,
51–2

myth of how the rabbit caught the sun
221–2

myth of how the rabbit slew the devouring hill
222–4

myth of Ictinike and the Creators
194–6

myth of Nekumonta and the healing waters
180–1

myth of the Bear-man
233–5

myth of the beaver and porcupine
250–1

myth of the men-serpents
196–9

myth of the sacred bundle
229–33

myth of the salmon
205–8

myth of the snake-ogre
202–5

origins of Cherokee medicine
172–4

origins of Seneca medicine
158

prey animals and Prey-Gods
29–31

retribution for ill-treatment
288–9

stone animal fetishes
28–30
,
31–2

totemism
18–19
,
287–8

Young Dog Dance
119–20

see also
fishes and fishing; individual animals and birds by name

Animism
17–18

Apache tribe
5
,
8
,
25–6
,
62
,
70
,
72

Arapaho tribe
10
,
227

Archaic Stage
3
,
6
,
8

Asgaya Gigagei
57

Ashochimi tribe
56

astronomy, Pawnee
236–7

Atahensic
187–9

Athapascan Indians
6
,
8
,
60

Loucheux tribe
282–3

Tinneh tribe
283–4

Atius Tiráwa
53–4
,
232
,
233
,
235
,
236
,
243

Atotarho, Chief
145–6
,
152–3

Awonawilona
40
,
53

badger
206
,
207

Bear-man
233–5

Bear Mother myth
15

Bear-spear myth
115–18

bears
15
,
18
,
64–5
,
111–12
,
116–17
,
120
,
139
,
173
,
233–5
,
241
,
265
,
287–8

Beaver and Porcupine, myth of the
250–1

Beaver Medicine legend
112–15

beavers
4
,
76–7
,
112–15
,
141
,
188
,
194–5
,
250–1

Bering Strait (Berengia land bridge)
2
,
70
,
285

birds
41
,
42
,
43–4
,
66–7
,
70
,
113–14
,
124
,
125
,
135–6
,
174
,
188
,
247–8

see also
Blue Jay; feathers; individual species by name

Blackfeet tribe
10
,
11
,
71

creation myth
143–4

myth of night-and-day
130–2

myth of Poia
127–8
,
129–30

myth of Sacred Otter and the snow-lodge
83–5

myth of the Great Bear constellation
111–12

myth of the medicine wolf
120–2

myth of the Sacred Bear-spear
115–18

Nápi
133–6
,
143

Blue Jay, myths of the
56
,
72
,
206
,
254–7
,
259–62
,
267–9
,
270–5

bones of the dead
57
,
170
,
255–6

boy magician myth
163–7

Breath Maker
73

Buffalo Dance
64–5

buffalos
10–11
,
14–15
,
27–38
,
43–4
,
83
,
119–20
,
134–8
,
143–4
,
171
,
214
,
217
,
224
,
230–3

burial rituals
11
,
58–9

Busk festival
64

buzzards
193–4

Californian Indians
7
,
275
,
290

beliefs of the Acagchemem
277–8

beliefs of the Cahrocs
276–7

beliefs of the Ochones
277

beliefs of the
playanos
of San Juan Capistrano valley
279–81

Chinigchinich
278
,
280–1

Coyotes
54
,
55–6

Niparaya
281
,
282

Ouiot
277–8
,
279–80

Quaayayp and Wac
281–2

Canadian Supreme Court
15

Caniengas tribes
151

cannibalism
33
,
202–3
,
213
,
243

canoes
6
,
7
,
59
,
60
,
64
,
82
,
146
,
167
,
168
,
169
,
176
,
245
,
246
,
248
,
252

Chácopee and the White Feather, myth of
218–21

Chareya, the Old Man Above
276

Charoc tribe
276–7

Cherokee tribe
44
,
57
,
62
,
65
,
66
,
170
,
172–4

Cheyenne tribe
10
,
27
,
227

Chinigchinich
278
,
280–1

Chinook tribe
54
,
55
,
56
,
59–60
,
224
,
253

myth of Stikŭa
269–75

myth of the Thunderer’s son-in-law
262–9

myths of Blue Jay
254–7
,
259–62
,
267–9
,
270–5

myths of the Supernatural People
257–62
,
266–7
,
269

Chipewayn tribe
290–1

Chippewa tribe
6
,
15

myth of Algon and the Star-maiden
85–8

myth of the maize spirit
109–11

myth of the malicious mother-in-law
105–9

Nanabozho
141–2

see also
Ojibwa tribe

Choctaw tribe
66

Chutsain
283

Cloud-carrier and the Star-folk, myth of
88–91

Columbus, Christopher
1

Comanche tribe
10
,
13
,
243

compass points, symbolic
61
,
64
,
238

Country of the Ghosts
see
Ghost-land

coyotes
14
,
31
,
54–6
,
71–2
,
206
,
207
,
276
,
278

cranes
105
,
120
,
127

Crazy Dog warrior society
11

creation myths
15
,
39–42
,
51
,
54–55
,
69–71
,
141–2
,
143–4
,
227
,
236
,
277–8
,
279–81
,
288

Cree tribe
6
,
118–20
,
141

Creeks tribe
44
,
54
,
64
,
66

Crooked Beak of Heaven
288

crop fertility
4
,
12
,
38
,
45

Crow tribe
3
,
117
,
120–1

crows
206
,
207
,
257–9

culture heros
14
,
30
,
40–1
,
52
,
73–4
,
141

Custer, General George A.
227

Dakota tribe
4
,
43
,
44
,
47
,
57
,
60
,
197
,
227