Author : Edward Morris Opler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 048614576X
Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
Author : Morris Edward Opler
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 178720569X
“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 published in 1942, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicarillas. The result is a definitive collection of their myths. They range from an account of the world destroyed by water to descriptions of puberty rites and wonderful contests. The exploits of culture heroes involve the slaying of monsters and the assistance of Coyote. A large part of the book is devoted to the irrepressible Coyote, whose antics make cautionary tales for the young, tales that also allow harmless expression of the taboo. Other striking stories present supernatural beings and “foolish people.”
Author : Morris Edward Opler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486283241
Classic study of myths relating to creation, agriculture and rain, hunting rituals, coyote cycle, monstrous enemy stories, many more.
Author : Richard Erdoes
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 29,89 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080415175X
More than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups present a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent comes tales of creation and love; heroes and war; animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. “This fine, valuable new gathering of ... tales is truly alive, mysterious, and wonderful—overflowing, that is, with wonder, mystery and life" (National Book Award Winner Peter Matthiessen). In addition to mining the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century, the editors have also included a broad selection of contemporary Native American voices.
Author : Chris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803286160
In 1933, famed anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache he called Chris and worked with him to record the man's life story, from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the mid-twentieth century. Chris's vivid recollections are enriched at strategic moments with crucial background information on Apache history and culture, supplied by Opler. Chris was born around 1880, the son of a Chiricahua man and a Mescalero woman. At the age of six, he and his family and other Chiricahua Apaches became prisoners of war and were relocated by the U.S. government to Florida and Alabama. Eventually settling on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico, Chris grew up expecting to become a shaman like his parents. Although Chris apprenticed as a shaman, his confidence in his healing ability waned after he was forced at the age of seventeen to attend federal government schools. Nonetheless, his interest in Mescalero religion, healing, and other traditional customs and beliefs remained, and that intimate knowledge of his people's world underscores and deepens the story of his own life.
Author : James Mooney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486131327
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.
Author : Matt Dembicki
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781682752739
In the original graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, Trickster brings together Native American folklore and the world of comics. This inspired collaboration pairs twenty-four native storytellers with twenty-four accomplished artists, telling cultural tales from across North America.
Author : Pliny Earle Goddard
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Jicarilla language
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803732708
Rabbit’s Snow Dance Master storytellers Joseph and James Bruchac present a hip and funny take on an Iroquois folktale about the importance of patience, the seasons, and listening to your friends. Pair it with other stories about stubborn animals like Karma Wilson’s Bear Wants More and Verna Aardema’s Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Rabbit loves the winter. He knows a dance, using an Iroquois drum and song, to make it snow—even in summertime! When rabbit decides that it should snow early, he starts his dance and the snow begins to fall. The other forest animals are not happy and ask him to stop, but Rabbit doesn’t listen. How much snow is too much, and will Rabbit know when to stop? The father-son duo behind How Chipmunk Got His Stripes, Raccoon’s Last Race, and Turtle’s Race with Beaver present their latest retelling of Native American folklore. “The telling is sprightly, and Newman's ink-and-watercolor artwork makes an ideal companion. An appealing addition to folktale shelves.” —Booklist “This modern retelling maintains [the Bruchacs’] solid reputation for keeping Native American tales fresh.” —School Library Journal “The picturesque language makes it a pleasure to read aloud.”—BCCB
Author : Ella E. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520350960
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
