Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians

• Paperback | Engels | Sources of American Indian Oral Literature
• When trappers and fur traders first encountered the Arikara Indians, they saw a settled and well-organized people who could be firm friends or fearsom... Lees meer

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

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• Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many gen... Lees meer

Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians

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• Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians , originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-... Lees meer

The Pawnee Mythology

George a Dorsey

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• The Pawnee Mythology , originally published in 1906, preserves 148 tales of the Pawnee Indians, who farmed and hunted and lived in earth-covered lodge... Lees meer

Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

Lewis Henry Morgan

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• Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, ... Lees meer

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Morris E. Opler

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• "We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First pu... Lees meer

The Oneida Creation Story

Demus ELM, Harvey Antone

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• The Oneida Creation Story is the oldest tradition of the Onyota'aka (People of the Standing Stone) and is one of the greatest pieces of oral literatur... Lees meer

Traditions of the Arapaho

George a Dorsey, Alfred Kroeber

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• Anthropologists George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber joined forces to record and preserve the rich cultural traditions of the Arapaho Indians, long ... Lees meer

Traditions of the Caddo

George a Dorsey

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• Hernando de Soto encountered the Caddos in the sixteenth century, and survivors of Sieur de La Salle's last voyage in the late seventeenth century gav... Lees meer