Plains Indian mythology / Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin.
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Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | E78.G73 M37 1975 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000100522812 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-194).
Beginnings: Great myths: Creation- Pawnee -- People of the middle waters and how they came to be- Osage -- How the earth and men were made- Arapaho -- How men were made- Crow -- Emergence myth- Kiowa -- Grandmother Spider and the Twin Boys- Kiowa -- Ghost owl- Cheyenne -- Little stories: How and why: Teaching the children- Kiowa-Apache -- How the people caught the sun- Kiowa -- Old Man Coyote and his mother-in-law- Brule Sioux -- Old Man Coyote and buffalo power- Shoshoni -- Why dogs do not speak- Kiowa -- Why turtle's shell is checked- Cheyenne -- Why the prairie dogs' tails are short- Kiowa -- Horseback days: Magic dogs- Comanche -- Out of the earth houses- Cheyenne -- Bear Butte- Cheyenne -- Traders from Mexico- Kiowa -- Woman general- Osage -- Woman left on the prairie- Comanche -- Enemies- Pawnee -- Winter the stars fell, 1833-1834- Kiowa -- Tipi shaking- Mescalero Apache -- Wolf power- Kiowa -- Shaman's spider- Kiowa -- Freedom's ending: Bed for God- Arapaho -- To catch a song- Pawnee -- Home cooking- Kiowa -- Candy man- Kiowa -- Forty-nine songs- Intertribal -- How much can be lost?- Cheyenne -- Plains today.
A collection of traditional stories gleaned from oral sources with poetry.
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