Indian Tales of North America: An Anthology for the Adult Reader

by Tristram Potter Coffin (Editor)

Overview

This collection of folktales, originally published in 1961, presents stories from a wide range of North American indigenous peoples. The stories are grouped into three categories: “The Way the World Is,” “What Man Must Know and Learn,” and “The Excitement of Living.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780292735064
Publisher:	University of Texas Press
Publication date:	05/01/1961
Series:	American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series , #13
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tristram P. Coffin (1922–2012) was Professor of English and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Remarks on Reading the Tales
• The Tales
• Part 1: The Way the World Is
  • 1. The Emergence (Hopi)
  • 2. The Earthdiver (Western Mono)
  • 3. Ouiot and Frog (San Luiseño)
  • 4. Theft of Fire (Southern Paiute)
  • 5. Theft of Light (Tahltan)
  • 6. How the Four Winds Were Created (Ojibwa)
  • 7. Coyote Arranges the Seasons of the Year (Shasta)
  • 8. The Origin of the Pleiades (Onondaga)
  • 9. The Girl Who Married a Dog (Cheyenne)
  • 10. The Deer and the Rainbow (Wyandot)
  • 11. The Frogs in the Moon (Lillooet)
  • 12. Afterbirth and Lodge Boy (Wichita)
  • 13. Loon-Woman (Shasta)
  • 14. Coyote Kills the Sucking Monster (Flathead)
  • 15. Walking Skeleton (Western Mono)
• Part 2: What Man Must Know and Learn
  • 16. Bloodclot (Southern Ute)
  • 17. The Story of Sweet Medicine (Cheyenne)
  • 18. Yellowtop-to-Head Woman (Cheyenne)
  • 19. The Origin of Corn (Wabanaki)
  • 20. Forgetting the Song (Zuñi)
  • 21. The Conquering Gambler (Tahltan)
  • 22. Star Husband (Sekani)
  • 23. Northern Lights (Wabanaki)
  • 24. The Land of the Dead (Coos)
  • 25. Water Jar Boy (Tewa)
  • 26. The Sun-Snare (Tête de Boule)
  • 27. The Lecherous Father and His Daughter (Southern Ute)
  • 28. The Toothed Vagina (Yurok)
• Part 3: The Excitement of Living
  • 29. Rolling Skull (Cheyenne)
  • 30. Rolling Rock (Flathead)
  • 31. The Man Who Married a Branch (Lillooet)
  • 32. The Origin of the Narwhal (Eskimo)
  • 33. Grizzly Bear and Doe (lassik)
  • 34. Turtle’s War-Party (Plains Ojibwa)
  • 35. Porcupine and Caribou (Carrier)
  • 36. Coyote Borrows Feathers (Uintah Ute)
  • 37. Why Buzzard is Bald (Iowa)
  • 38. The Hoodwinked Dancers (Comanche)
  • 39. The Bungling Host (Southern Ute)
  • 40. The Eye-Juggler (Cheyenne)
  • 41. Adventures of Naniboju (Mississaga)
  • 42. Adventures of Whiskey Jack (Plains Cree)
  • 43. Coyote’s Amorous Adventures (Shasta)
  • 44. Turtle’s Sacred War-Bundle (Iowa)
  • 45. Sleeping with a Log (Iowa)
• Notes to the Tales