Tepee tales of the American Indian Folktales of the Native American
Notes:
Originally published: Tepee tales of the American Indian. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1979. With new foreword "An Owl book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174)
Contents:
I. When Animals Lived as Equals with The People Rooster, the Mockingbird and the Maiden (Hopi) Bear Man (Cherokee) How Antelope Carrier Saved the Thunderbirds (Arikara) Why Dogs Have Long Tongues (Caddo) Great Shell of Kintyel (Navaho) Girl Who Climbed to the Sky (Arapaho-Caddo) II. Before the White Men Came Cheyenne Prophet (Cheyenne) Deeds and Prophecies of Old Man (Blackfoot) How Day and Night Were Divided (Creek) How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth (Apache-Comanche) How Corn Came to the Earth (Arikara) How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People (Creek) Godasiyo the Woman Chief (Seneca) III. Allegories Return of Ice Man (Cherokee) Ice Man and the Messenger of Springtime (Chippewa) IV. First Contacts with Europeans How Ioscoda and His Friends Met the White Men from the East and Journeyed Across the Great Waters (Ottawa) Katlian and the Iron People (Tlingit) How the First White Men Came to the Cheyennes (Cheyenne) V. Coming of the Horse How a Piegan Warrior Found the First Horses (Blackfoot) Water Spirit's Gift of Horses (Blackfoot) VI. Tricksters and Magicians How Rabbit Fooled Wolf (Creek) Coyote and the Rolling Rock (Salish-Blackfoot) Skunk Outwits Coyote (Comanche) Nihancan and the Dwarf's Arrow (Arapaho) Swift-Runner and the Trickster Tarantula (Zuni) Buffalo Woman, A Story of Magic (Caddo) VII. Heroes and Heroines Hunter and the Dakwa (Cherokee) Prisoners of Court House Rock (Pawnee) Red Shield and Running Wolf (Crow) VIII. Animal Stories Bluebird and the Coyote (Pima) Story of the Bat (Creek) Crow and Hawk (Cochiti) Why Coyote Stopped Imitating His Friends (Caddo) IX. Ghost Stories Lame Warrior and the Skeleton (Arapaho) Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman (Blackfoot) Sioux Who Wrestled With A Ghost (Sioux)
