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9780670878291

AMERICAN INDIAN TRICKSTER TALES

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  • ISBN13:

    9780670878291

  • ISBN10:

    0670878294

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: Viking Pr
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Summary

Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world through the centuries - courageous heroes, scary monsters, rapturous virgins - it's the Trickster who provides the real spark in the action. And nowhere is he more central to the story than in Native American folklore. This book covers the entire North American continent, with more than one hundred tales from fifty-five tribes. You'll encounter the rascally and irascible Coyote, master thief and insatiable lover of the Southwest; lktomi the shape-shifting Spider-Man of the Lakota: Veeho, the Cheyenne daredevil; and Glooskap of the Passamaquoddy. You'll read tale cycles from the Eastern seaboard, the Great Lakes, the mountains, and the plains. It is a volume of traditional wit and wisdom that represents the best of folkloric sources of the last two centuries and a bounty of unpublished tales recorded by the authors from contemporary storytellers.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiii
PART ONE Coyote Creates the World---and a Few Other Things 1(24)
The Beginning of the World (Yokuts)
3(1)
Sun and Moon in a Box (Zuni)
4(2)
Coyote Steals the Sun (Miwok)
6(3)
Origin of the Moon and the Sun (Kalispel)
9(3)
How People Were Made (Miwok)
12(1)
Coyote Steals the Summer (Crow)
13(2)
Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead (Yakima)
15(3)
Coyote Steals Fire (Klamath)
18(2)
Coyote Kills Terrible Monster (Salish)
20(3)
The Seven Devils Mountains (Nez Perce)
23(2)
PART TWO Up to no Good 25(28)
Coyote Taunts the Grizzly Bear (Kutenai)
27(2)
How Locust Tricked Coyote (Zuni)
29(3)
Coyote-Giving (Paiute)
32(2)
Putting a Saddle on Coyote's Back (Northern Pueblo)
34(2)
A Satisfying Meal (Hopi)
36(2)
A Strong Heart (Arikara)
38(2)
Better Luck Next Time (Hopi)
40(1)
Long Ears Outsmarts Coyote (Pueblo)
41(3)
Old Man Coyote and the Buffalo (Crow)
44(1)
Coyote and Bobcat Have Their Faces Done (Ute)
45(1)
The Adventures of a Meatball (Comanche)
46(1)
Coyote Gets Stuck (Shasta)
47(1)
Anything but Pinon Pitch! (Navajo)
48(1)
Fat, Grease, and Berries (Crow)
49(1)
Don't Be Too Curious (Lakota)
50(3)
PART THREE Coyote's Amorous Adventures 53(26)
Coyote's Amorous Adventures (Shasta)
55(1)
Two Rascals and Their Wives (Pueblo)
56(2)
Coyote Sleeps with His Own Daughters (Southern Ute)
58(3)
Old Man Coyote Meets Coyote Woman (Blackfoot)
61(2)
Coyote and Fox Dress Up (Nez Perce)
63(2)
Coyote and the Girls (Karok and Yurok)
65(1)
Coyote Keeps His Dead Wife's Genitals (Lipan Apache)
66(1)
The Toothed Vagina (Yurok)
67(2)
Something Fishy Going On (Athapascan)
69(3)
Where Do Babies Come From? (Karuk)
72(2)
Winyan-shan Upside Down (Sioux)
74(5)
PART FOUR The Trouble With Rose Hips 79(12)
Coyote, Skunk, and the Beavers (Wichita)
81(2)
Monster Skunk Farting Everyone to Death (Cree)
83(3)
Coyote Sells a Burro That Defecates Money (Lipan Apache)
86(1)
Coyote the Credulous (Taos)
86(1)
The Trouble with Rose Hips (Lipan Apache)
87(4)
PART FIVE Iktomi the Spider-Man 91(30)
Seven Toes (Assiniboine)
93(1)
Tricking the Trickster (Sioux)
94(5)
Iktomi and the Man-Eating Monster (Lakota)
99(3)
Iktomi, Flint Boy, and the Grizzly (Lakota)
102(1)
Iktomi and the Buffalo Calf (Assiniboine)
103(2)
Ikto's Grandchild Defeats Siyoko (Rosebud Sioux)
105(2)
The Cheater Cheated (Lakota)
107(2)
The Spider Cries ``Wolf'' (Rosebud Sioux)
109(3)
Tit for Tat (Omaha)
112(2)
Iktomi Takes Back a Gift (Rosebud Sioux)
114(2)
Iktomi and the Wild Ducks (Minneconjou Sioux)
116(1)
Iktomi Trying to Outrace Beaver (Santee)
117(2)
Too Smart for His Own Good (Sioux)
119(2)
PART SIX Spider-Man in Love 121(16)
Oh, It's You! (Lakota)
123(2)
Too Many Women (Lakota)
125(3)
Forbidden Fruit (Lakota and Rosebud Sioux)
128(4)
The Spiders Give Birth to the People (Arikara)
132(1)
The Winkte Way (Omaha)
133(4)
PART SEVEN The Veeho Cycle 137(18)
He Has Been Saying Bad Things About You (Northern Cheyenne)
139(3)
The Possible Bag (Northern Cheyenne)
142(4)
Hair Loss (Northern Cheyenne)
146(1)
Brother, Sharpen My Leg! (Cheyenne)
147(1)
Veeho Has His Back Scraped (Northern Cheyenne)
148(3)
He Sure Was a Good Shot (Cheyenne)
151(2)
The Only Man Around (Northern Cheyenne)
153(2)
PART EIGHT The Nixant and Sitconski Cycles 155(14)
When the People Were Wild (Gros Ventre)
157(3)
The Talking Penis (Gros Ventre)
160(2)
Hairy Legs (Gros Ventre)
162(1)
Sitconski and the Buffalo Skull (Assiniboine)
163(1)
She Refused to Have Him (Assiniboine)
164(1)
Ni'hancan and Whirlwind Woman (Arapaho)
165(1)
Ni'hancan and the Race for Wives (Arapaho)
166(3)
PART NINE Magical Master Rabbit 169(16)
Little Rabbit Fights the Sun (Ute)
171(4)
The Long Black Stranger (Omaha)
175(2)
Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare (Cherokee)
177(1)
Rabbit Escapes from the Box (Creek)
178(2)
Rabbit and Possum on the Prowl (Cherokee)
180(1)
Tar Baby (Biloxi)
181(2)
Don't Believe What People Tell You (San Ildefonso or San Juan)
183(2)
PART TEN Nanabozho and Whiskey Jack 185(18)
Nanabozho and the Fish Chief (Great Lakes Tribes)
187(3)
Why We Have to Work So Hard Making Maple Sugar (Menomini)
190(1)
Who Is Looking Me in the Face? (Menomini)
191(3)
Why Women Have Their Moon-Time (Menomini)
194(1)
Whiskey Jack Wants to Fly (Cree and Metis)
195(5)
Wesakaychak, the Windigo, and the Ermine (Cree and Metis)
200(3)
PART ELEVEN Old Man Napi Chooses a Wife 203(12)
Choosing Mates (Blackfoot)
205(4)
Napi Races Coyote for a Meal (Blackfoot)
209(2)
Magic Leggings (Blackfoot)
211(4)
PART TWELVE Glooskap the Great 215(16)
How the Lord of Men and Beasts Strove with the Mighty Wasis and Was Shamefully Defeated (Penobscot)
217(1)
Glooskap Turns Men into Rattlesnakes (Passamaquoddy)
218(1)
Kuloskap and the Ice-Giants (Passamaquoddy)
219(2)
Questions, Questions (Passamaquoddy)
221(1)
A New Way to Travel (Micmac)
222(3)
Glooskap Grants Four Wishes (Micmac)
225(4)
A Puff of His Pipe (Micmac)
229(2)
PART THIRTEEN Skeleton Man 231(12)
While the Gods Snored (Hopi)
233(3)
How Masaaw Slept with a Beautiful Maiden (Hopi)
236(3)
Scared to Death (Hopi)
239(4)
PART FOURTEEN Raven Lights the World 243(24)
Hungry for Clams (Hoh and Quileute)
245(2)
Give It Back! Give It Back! (Haida)
247(3)
Raven Steals the Moon (Haida)
250(2)
Yehl, the Lazy One (Haida)
252(2)
Raven and His Slave (Tsimshian)
254(4)
A Lousy Fisherman (Haida)
258(1)
Raven Lights the World (Tlingit)
259(8)
Appendix 267(18)
Sources 285(10)
Index of Tales 295

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