Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American Retold for Our Times

by Brown, Dee; Mofsie, Louis

• ISBN13: 9780805026078
• ISBN10: 080502607X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-15
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribesSeneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and Blackfootthese thirty-six stories, passed down through generations, are narrated by Dee Brown as they might be told around a campfire today. Updated for the modern reader, these tales capture the true spirit and flavor of Native American Mythology. With a new preface written by the author especially for this edition and attractive line illustrations by Native American Louis Mofsie, this unique is essential reading for a new generation of students interested in Native American culture and history, mythology and folklore, and cultural history.

Author Biography

Dee Brown is the author of more than twenty five books on American history and the West, including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
I WHEN ANIMALS LIVED AS EQUALS WITH THE PEOPLE	11	(32)
The Rooster, the Mockingbird and the Maiden (Hopi)	14	(4)
The Bear Man (Cherokee)	18	(4)
How Antelope Carrier Saved the Thunderbirds (Arikara)	22	(4)
Why Dogs Have Long Tongues (Caddo)	26	(2)
The Great Shell of Kintyel (Navaho)	28	(11)
The Girl Who Climbed to the Sky (Arapaho-Caddo)	39	(4)
II BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME	43	(32)
The Cheyenne Prophet (Cheyenne)	46	(13)
The Deeds and Prophecies of Old Man (Blackfoot)	59	(3)
How Day and Night Were Divided (Creek)	62	(1)
How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth (Apache-Comanche)	63	(2)
How Corn Came to the Earth (Arikara)	65	(5)
How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People (Creek)	70	(1)
Godasiyo the Woman Chief (Seneca)	71	(4)
III ALLEGORIES	75	(6)
The Return of Ice Man (Cherokee)	78	(1)
Ice Man and the Messenger of Springtime (Chippewa)	79	(2)
IV FIRST CONTACTS WITH EUROPEANS	81	(14)
How Ioscoda and His Friends Met the White Men from the East and Journeyed Across the Great Waters (Ottawa)	84	(6)
Katlian and the Iron People (Tlingit)	90	(2)
How the First White Men Came to the Cheyennes (Cheyenne)	92	(3)
V THE COMING OF THE HORSE	95	(8)
How a Piegan Warrior Found the First Horses (Blackfoot)	98	(1)
Water Spirit's Gift of Horses (Blackfoot)	99	(4)
VI TRICKSTERS AND MAGICIANS	103	(26)
How Rabbit Fooled Wolf (Creek)	106	(3)
Coyote and the Rolling Rock (Salish-Blackfoot)	109	(2)
Skunk Outwits Coyote (Comanche)	111	(3)
Nihancan and the Dwarf's Arrow (Arapaho)	114	(1)
Swift-Runner and the Trickster Tarantula (Zuni)	115	(8)
Buffalo Woman, A Story of Magic (Caddo)	123	(6)
VII HEROES AND HEROINES	129	(14)
The Hunter and the Dakwa (Cherokee)	132	(1)
The Prisoners of Court House Rock (Pawnee)	133	(2)
Red Shield and Running Wolf (Crow)	135	(8)
VIII ANIMAL STORIES	143	(12)
The Bluebird and the Coyote (Pima)	146	(1)
The Story of the Bat (Creek)	147	(1)
Crow and Hawk (Cochiti)	148	(2)
Why Coyote Stopped Imitating His Friends (Caddo)	150	(5)
IX GHOST STORIES	155	(14)
The Lame Warrior and the Skeleton (Arapaho)	158	(2)
Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman (Blackfoot)	160	(6)
The Sioux Who Wrestled With A Ghost (Sioux)	166	(3)
Sources	169