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American Indian Myths and Legends

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Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.1985

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Pantheon Schocken Books

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544

Maße (L/B/H)

23,2/15,5/3,8 cm

Gewicht

782 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-394-74018-8

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

12.08.1985

Verlag

Pantheon Schocken Books

Seitenzahl

544

Maße (L/B/H)

23,2/15,5/3,8 cm

Gewicht

782 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-394-74018-8

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: American Indian Myths and Legends
  • Introduction  xi
       
    • PART ONE •  
    RABBIT BOY KICKED THAT BLOOD CLOT AROUND:    
    Tales of Human Creation   1
    Rabbit Boy (White River Sioux) 5
    Blood Clot (Southern Ute) 8
    Corn Mother (Penobscot) 11
    Creation of the Animal People (Okanogan) 14
    Stone Boy (Brule Sioux) 15
    The Powerful Boy (Seneca) 20
    Glooscap and the Baby (Algonquian) 25
    The Old Woman of the Spring (Cheyenne) 26
    Arrow Boy (Cheyenne) 29
    The Great Medicine Dance (Cheyenne) 33
    The Origin of Curing Ceremonies (White Mountain Apaches) 37
    Creation of First Man and First Woman (Navajo) 39
    How Men and Women Got Together (Blood-Piegan) 41
    The Well-Baked Man (Pima) 46
    The White Buffalo Woman (Brule Sioux) 47
    The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog (Blackfoot) 53
    Salt Woman Is Refused Food (Cochiti) 61
    The Sacred Weed (Blackfoot) 62
    How Grandfather Peyote Came to the Indian People (Brule Sioux) 65
    The Vision Quest (Brule Sioux) 69
       
    • PART TWO •  
    THE PLACE OF EMERGENCE:  
    Tales of World Creation   73
    The Good Twin and the Evil Twin (Yuma) 77
    The Jicarilla Genesis (Jicarilla Apache) 83
    When Grizzlies Walked Upright (Modoc) 85
    Old Man Coyote Makes the World (Crow) 88
    How the Sioux Came to Be (Brule Sioux) 93
    Pushing Up the Sky (Snohomish) 95
    Emerging into the Upper World (Acoma) 97
    Earth Making (Chebokee) 105
    The Earth Dragon (Northern California Coast) 107
    People Brought in a Basket (Modoc) 109
    Great Medicine Makes a Beautiful Country (Cheyenne) 111
    The White Dawn of the Hopi (Hopi) 115
    Creation of the Yakima World (Yakima) 117
    Children of the Sun (Osage) 119
    The Voice, the Flood, and the Turtle (Caddo) 120
    A Tale of Elder Brother (Pima) 122
       
    • PART THREE •  
    THE EYE OF THE GREAT SPIRIT:  
    Tales of the Sun, Moon, and Stars   125
    Sun Creation (Brule Sioux) 129
    Walks-all-Over-the-Sky (Tsimshian) 136
    Three-Legged Rabbit Fights the Sun (Western Rockies) 139
    Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon (Zuni) 140
    Keeping Warmth in a Bag (Slavey) 143
    The Hopi Boy and the Sun (Hopi) 145
    A Gust of Wind (Ojibway) 150
    Daughter of the Sun (Cherokee) 152
    Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun (Cherokee) 154
    The Story of the Creation (Diegueños) 156
    The Foolish Girls (Ojibway) 158
    Moon Rapes His Sister Sun (Inuit) 161
    Sun Teaches Veeho a Lesson (Cheyenne) 162
    Little Brother Snares the Sun (Winnebago) 164
    The Scabby One Lights the Sky (Toltec) 166
    Playing a Trick on the Moon (Snoqualmie) 168
    The Theft of Light (Tsimshian) 169
    Coyote Places the Stars (Wasco) 171
    Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden (Tewa) 173
       
    • PART FOUR •  
    ORDEALS OF THE HERO:  
    Monsters and Monster Slayers   177
    Glooscap Fights the Water Monster (Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliskeet) 181
    Little-Man-with-Hair-All-Over (Metis) 185
    How Mosquitoes Came to Be (Tlingit) 192
    Hiawatha the Unifier (Iroquois) 193
    The Life and Death of Sweet Medicine (Northern Cheyenne) 199
    The Quillwork Girl and her Seven Star Brothers (Cheyenne) 205
    Rolling Head (Wintu) 209
    Son of Light Kills the Monster (Hopi) 211
    The Coming of Thunder (Miwok) 216
    Wakinyan Tanka, the Great Thunderbird (Brule Sioux) 218
    Coyote Kills the Giant (Flathead) 223
    A Legend of Devil’s Tower (Sioux) 225
    The Flying Head (Iroquois) 227
    The First Ship (Chinook) 229
    Chase of the Severed Head (Cheyenne) 230
    Uncegila’s Seventh Spot (Brule Sioux) 237
       
    • PART FIVE •  
    COUNTING COUP:  
    War and the Warrior Code   243
    Little Mouse Counting Coup (Brule Sioux) 247
    Two Bullets and Two Arrows (Brule Sioux) 248
    A Cheyenne Blanket (Pawnee) 251
    The Warrior Maiden (Oneida) 252
    The Siege of Courthouse Rock (White River Sioux) 254
    Chief Roman Nose Loses his Medicine (White River Sioux) 256
    Brave Woman Counts Coup (White River Sioux) 258
    Spotted Eagle and Black Crow (White River Sioux) 260
    Where the Girl Saved her Brother (Cheyenne) 264
    Tatanka Iyotake’s Dancing Horse (Brule Sioux) 267
       
    • PART SIX •  
    THE SOUND OF FLUTES:  
    Tales of Love and Lust   271
    The Legend of the Flute (Brule Sioux) 275
    Teaching the Mudheads How to Copulate (Zuni) 279
    The Fight for a Wife (Aleut) 281
    Teeth in the Wrong Places (Ponca-Otoe) 283
    The Stolen Wife (Tewa) 285
    Tolowim Woman and Butterfly Man (Maidu) 290
    Apache Chief Punishes his Wife (Tiwa) 291
    The Husband’s Promise (Tewa) 295
    The Man Who Married the Moon (Isleta Pueblo) 298
    Why Mole Lives Underground (Cherokee) 305
    A Legend of Multnomah Falls (Multnomah) 306
    The Industrious Daughter Who Would not Marry (Cochiti) 308
    The Woman Who Married a Merman (Coos) 312
    Coyote’s Strawberry (Crow) 314
    The Faithful Wife and the Woman Warrior (Tiwa) 315
    Coyote and the Mallard Ducks (Nez Percé) 318
    The Greedy Father (Kabok) 320
    Kulshan and his Two Wives (Lumni) 321
    Men and Women Try Living Apart (Sia) 324
    A Contest for Wives (Cochiti) 326
    The Serpent of the Sea (Zuni) 327
       
    • PART SEVEN •  
    COYOTE LAUGHS AND CRIES:  
    Trickster Tales   333
    Coyote, Iktome, and the Rock (White River Sioux) 337
    What’s This? My Balls for your Dinner (White River Sioux) 339
    Coyote and Wasichu (Brule Sioux 342
    How Beaver Stole Fire from the Pines (Nez Percé) 343
    The Raven (Athapascan) 344
    The Bluebird and the Coyote (Pima) 346
    Adventures of Great Rabbit (Algonquian) 347
    Turkey Makes the Corn and Coyote Plants It (White Mountain Apache) 352
    Coyote Takes Water from the Frog People (Kalapuya) 355
    How the People Got Arrowheads (Shasta) 356
    Iktome and the Ignorant Girl (Brule Sioux) 358
    Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch (White Mountain Apache) 359
    Always-Living-at-the-Coast (Kwakiutl) 362
    Glooscap Grants Three Wishes (Algonquian) 365
    Coyote’s Rabbit Chase (Tewa) 368
    Coyote Gets Rich off the White Man (White Mountain Apache) 369
    Iktome Sleeps with his Wife by Mistake (Brule Sioux) 372
    How to Scare a Bear (Tewa) 375
    Coyote Steals Sun’s Tobacco (White Mountain Apache) 377
    Doing a Trick with Eyeballs (Northern Cheyenne) 379
    Iktome Has a Bad Dream (Brule Sioux) 381
    How Coyote Got his Cunning (Karok) 382
    Coyote and the Two Frog Women (Alsea) 384
    Coyote Dances with a Star (Cheyenne) 385
       
    • PART EIGHT •  
    FOUR LEGS, TWO LEGS, AND NO LEGS:  
    Stories of Animals and Other People   387
    The Great Race (Cheyenne) 390
    Origin of the Gnawing Beaver (Haida) 392
    How the Crow Came to Be Black (Brule Sioux) 395
    The Girl Who Married Rattlesnake (Pomo) 397
    Why the Owl Has Big Eyes (Iroquois) 398
    The Owl Husband (Passamaquoddy) 399
    The Dogs Hold an Election (Brule Sioux) 403
    The Snake Brothers (Brule Sioux) 404
    Butterflies (Papago) 407
    The Revenge of Blue Corn Ear Maiden (Hopi) 409
    The Meeting of the Wild Animals (Tsimshian) 413
    A Fish Story (Tewa) 415
    The Neglectful Mother (Cochiti) 417
    The Bear and his Indian Wife (Haida) 419
    Wakiash and the First Totem Pole (Kwakiutl) 423
       
    • PART NINE •  
    SOMETHING WHISTLING IN THE NIGHT:  
    Ghosts and the Spirit World   427
    Two Ghostly Lovers (Brule Sioux) 432
    The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing (Brule Sioux) 435
    The Land of the Dead (Serrano) 438
    The Double-Faced Ghost (Cheyenne) 439
    A Journey to the Skeleton House (Hopi) 442
    The Skeleton Who Fell Down Piece by Piece (Isleta Pueblo) 446
    The Spirit Wife (Zuni) 447
    The Transformed Grandmother (Pima-Papago) 451
    Big Eater’s Wife (Pequod) 453
    The Origin of the Hopi Snake Dance (Tewa) 455
    Blue Jay Visits Ghost Town (Chinook) 457
    The Ghost Wife (Brule Sioux) 462
       
    • PART TEN •  
    ONLY THE ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS LAST FOREVER:  
    Visions of the End   465
    Woman Chooses Death (Blackfoot) 469
    Coyote and the Origin of Death (Caddo) 470
    The Flood (Haida) 472
    The Seer Who Would not See (Pima) 473
    The Elk Spirit of Lost Lake (Wasco) 475
    The Death of Head Chief and Young Mule (Northern Cheyenne) 477
    The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee (Brule Sioux) 481
    The Gnawing (Cheyenne) 484
    The End of the World (White River Sioux) 485
    Montezuma and the Great Flood (Papago) 487
    The Buffalo Go (Kiowa) 490
    The Coming of Wasichu (Brule Sioux) 491
    Remaking the World (Brule Sioux) 496
       
    Appendix  500
      
    Bibliography  522
      
    Index of Tales  526