General
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson [1929]
Chapter I: Mythological Stories
Chapter II: Mythical Incidents
Chapter III: Trickster Tales
Chapter IV: Hero Tales
Chapter V: Journeys to the Other World
Chapter VI: Animal Wives and Husbands
Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Tales
Chapter VIII: Tales Borrowed From Europeans
Chapter IX: Bible Stories
Walam Olum excerpt from The Lenp and Their Legends, by Samuel
G. Brinton. Brinton's Library of Aboriginal Literature number V.
Phildelphia [1885].
The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman [1911]
I. THE GREAT MYSTERY
II. THE FAMILY ALTAR
III. CEREMONIAL AND SYMBOLIC WORSHIP
IV. BARBARISM AND THE MORAL CODE
V. THE UNWRITTEN SCRIPTURES
VI. ON THE BORDER-LAND OF SPIRITS
Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman [1915]
WHY THE CHIPMUNK'S BACK IS STRIPED
HOW THE DUCKS GOT THEIR FINE FEATHERS
WHY THE KINGFISHER ALWAYS WEARS A WAR-BONNET
WHY THE CURLEW S BILL IS LONG AND CROOKED
OLD-MAN REMARKS THE WORLD
WHY BLACKFEET NEVER KILL MICE
HOW THE OTTER SKIN BECAME GREAT "MEDICINE"
OLD-MAN STEALS THE SUN'S LEGGINGS
OLD-MAN AND HIS CONSCIENCE
OLD-MAN'S TREACHERY
WHY THE NIGHT-HAWK'S WINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL
WHY THE MOUNTAIN-LION IS LONG AND LEAN
THE FIRE-LEGGINGS
THE MOON AND THE GREAT SNAKE
WHY THE DEER HAS NO GALL
WHY INDIANS WHIP THE BUFFALO-BERRIES FROM THE BUSHES
OLD-MAN AND THE FOX
WHY THE BIRCH-TREE WEARS THE SLASHES IN ITS BARK
MISTAKES OF OLD-MAN
HOW THE MAN FOUND HIS MATE
DREAMS
RETROSPECTION
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa [1901]
IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS
IKTOMI'S BLANKET
IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT
IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE
IKTOMI AND THE FAWN
THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
THE TREE-BOUND
SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE
IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE
DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL
THE TOAD AND THE BOY
IYA, THE CAMP-EATER
MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
THE WARLIKE SEVEN
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin [1916]
The Forgotten Ear of Corn
The Little Mice
The Pet Rabbit
The Pet Donkey
The Rabbit and the Elk
The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
The Faithful Lovers
The Artichoke and the Muskrat
The Rabbit, and the Bear with the Flint Body
Story of the Lost Wife
The Raccoon and the Crawfish
Legend of Standing Rock
Story of the Peace Pipe
A Bashful Courtship
The Simpleton's Wisdom
Little Brave and the Medicine Woman
The Bound Children
The Signs of Corn
Story of the Rabbits
How the Rabbit Lost His Tail
Unktomi and the Arrowheads
The Bear and the Rabbit Hunt Buffalo
The Brave Who Went on the Warpath Alone and Won the Name of
the Lone Warrior
The Sioux Who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter
The Boy and the Turtles
The Hermit, or the Gift of Corn
The Mysterious ButteThe Wonderful Turtle
The Man and the Oak
Story of the Two Young Friends
The Story of the Pet Crow
The "Wasna" (Pemmican Man) and the Unktomi (Spider)
The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter
The Story of the Pet Crane
White Plume
Story of Pretty Feathered Forehead
The Four Brothers or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy)
The Unktomi (Spider), Two Widows and the Red Plums
Californian Indians
Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber. University
of California Publications in American Ethnography and Ethnology
(UCPAAE) Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 319-356. [1907]
Customary Observances by Individuals
Shamanism
Public Ceremonies
Ceremonial Structures and Paraphernalia
Mythology and Beliefs
Special Characteristics of Different Tribes
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Compiled
and edited by Katherine Berry Judson. [1912]
The Beginning of Newness - Zuni (New Mexico)
The Men of the Early Times - Zuni (New Mexico)
Creation and Longevity - Achomawi (Pit River, Cal.)
Old Moles Creation - Shastika (Cal.)
The Creation of the World - Pima (Arizona)
Spider's Creation - Sia (New Mexico)
The Gods and the Six Regions
How Old Man Above Created the World - Shastika (Cal.)
The Search for the Middle and the Hardening of the World - Zuni
(New Mexico)
Origin of Light - Gallinomero (Russian River, Cal.)
Pokoh, the Old Man - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
Thunder and Lightning - Maidu (near Sacramento Valley. Cal.)
Creation of Man - Miwok (San Joaquin Valley, Cal.)
The First Man and Woman - Nishinam (near Bear River, Cal.)
Old Man Above and the Grizzlies - Shastika (Cal.)
The Creation of Man-kind and the Flood - Pima (Arizona)
The Birds and the Flood - Pima (Arizona)
Legend of the Flood - Ashochimi (Coast Indians, Cal.)
The Great Flood - Sia (New Mexico)
The Flood and the Theft of Fire - Tolowa (Del Norte Co., Cal.)
Legend of the Flood in Sacramento Maidu Valley - (near Sacramento,
Cal.)
The Fable of the Animals - Karok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
Coyote and Sun - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
The Course of the Sun - Sia (New Mexico)
The Foxes and the Sun - Yurok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
The Theft of Fire - Karok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
The Theft of Fire - Sia (New Mexico)
The Earth-hardening after the Flood - Sia (New Mexico)
The Origins of the Totems and of Names - Zuni (New Mexico)
Traditions of Wanderings - Hopi (Arizona)
The Migration of the Water People - Walpi (Arizona)
Coyote and the Mesquite Beans - Pima (Arizona)
Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range - Yokuts (near
Fresno, Cal.)
Yosemite Valley and its Indian Names
Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu'-la (El Capitan) - Yosemite Valley
Legend of Tis-se'-yak (South Dome and North Dome) Yosemite Valley
Historic Tradition of the Upper Tuolumne - Yosemite Valley
California Big Trees - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
The Children of Cloud - Pima (Arizona)
The Cloud People - Sia (New Mexico)
Rain Song - Sia (New Mexico)
Rain Song
Rain Song - Sia (New Mexico)
The Corn Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico)
The Search for the Corn Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico)
Hasjelti and Hostjoghon - Navajo (New Mexico)
The Song-hunter - Navajo (New Mexico)
Sand Painting of the Song-hunter - Navajo
The Guiding Duck and the Lake of Death - Zuni (New Mexico)
The Boy who Became a God - Navajo (New Mexico)
Origin of Clear Lake - Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.)
The Great Fire - Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.)
Origin of the Raven and the Macaw - Zuni (New Mexico)
Coyote and the Hare - Sia (New Mexico)
Coyote and the Quails - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote and the Fawns - Sia (New Mexico)
How the Bluebird Got its Color - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote's Eyes - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote and the Tortillas - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote as a Hunter - Sia (New Mexico)
How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite - Pima (Arizona)
Coyote and the Rattlesnake - Sia (New Mexico)
Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti - Pima (Arizona)
The Thirsty Quails - Pima (Arizona)
The Boy and the Beast - Pima (Arizona)
Why the Apaches are Fierce - Pima (Arizona)
Speech on the Warpath - Pima (Arizona)
The Spirit Land - Gallinomero (Russian River, Cal.)
Song of the Ghost Dance - Pai Ute (Kern River, Cal.)
Additional books for the Californian Indians
Indian Myths Of South Central California. By A. L. Kroeber.
UCPAAE Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 167-250. [1907].
Myths of the Miwok By Edward Winslow Gifford. UCPAAE Vol. 12,
No. 8, pp. 283-338. [1917]
The Dawn of the World Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan
[Miwok] Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam [1910]
Maidu Texts by Roland B. Dixon, Publications of the American
Ethnological Society, vol. IV [1912]
Hupa Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. UCPAAE Vol. 1 No. 2 [1904]
Yana Texts by Edward Sapir UCPAAE Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-235. [1910]
Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales and Achomawi Myths by Roland B.
Dixon JAFL Vol. 22, no. 81, pp. 159-77 [1908] and JAFL Vol. 23,
no. 85, pp. 283-7 [1909].
Chinigchinich by Friar Geronimo Boscana; tr. by Alfred Robinson;
[1846]
The Mythology of the Diegeos by Constance Goddard Du Bois,
The Journal of American Folk-Lore (JAFL) Vol. XIV, No. 54, pp. 181-5
[1901]
A Saboba Origin-Myth by George Wharton James; JAFL Vol. XV,
No. 61, pp. 36-9 [1902]
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton James;
JAFL Vol. XVI, No. 62, pp. 153-9 [1903]
The Story of the Chaup; A Myth of the Diegueos by Constance
Goddard Du Bois; JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 67 pp. 217-42 [1904]
Mythology of the Mission Indians by Constance Goddard Du Bois;
JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 66. p.. 185-8 [1904]; Vol. XIX. No. 72 pp. 52-60
and 73. pp. 145-64. [1906].
Two Myths of the Mission Indians by A. L. Kroeber; JAFL Vol.
XIX, No. 75 pp. 309-21 [1906]
Ceremonies and Traditions of the Diegueo Indians by Constance
Goddard Du Bois; JAFL XXI, No. 82 pp. 228-36 [1908].
Inuit
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henry Rink [1875]
Eskimo Folk-tales collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and
edited by W. Worster [1921]
THE TWO FRIENDS WHO SET OFF TO TRAVEL ROUND THE WORLD
THE COMING OF MEN, A LONG, LONG WHILE AGO
NUKNGUASIK, WHO ESCAPED FROM THE TUPILAK
QUJVRSSUK
KNIGSEQ
THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BEAR AS A FOSTER-SON
MARASUGSSUAQ, WHO ATE HIS WIVES
QALAGNGUAS, WHO PASSED TO THE LAND OF GHOSTS
ISIGLIGRSSIK
THE INSECTS THAT WOOED A WIFELESS MAN
THE VERY OBSTINATE MAN
THE DWARFS
THE BOY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, WHO FRIGHTENED THE PEOPLE
OF THE HOUSE TO DEATH
THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE
WHEN THE RAVENS COULD SPEAK
MAKTE
ASALQ
UKALEQ
KARDLTUARSSUK
THE RAVEN WHO WANTED A WIFE
THE MAN WHO TOOK A VIXEN TO WIFE
THE GREAT BEAR
THE MAN WHO BECAME A STAR
THE WOMAN WITH THE IRON TAIL
HOW THE FOG CAME
THE MAN WHO AVENGED THE WIDOWS
THE MAN WHO WENT OUT TO SEARCH FOR HIS SON
ATUNGAIT, WHO WENT A-WANDERING
KUMAGDLAK AND THE LIVING ARROWS
THE GIANT DOG
THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH
THE MAN WHO STABBED HIS WIFE IN THE LEG
THE SOUL THAT LIVED IN THE BODIES OF ALL BEASTS
PAPIK, WHO KILLED HIS WIFE'S BROTHER
PTUSSORSSUAQ, WHO KILLED HIS UNCLE
THE MEN WHO CHANGED WIVES
ARTUK, WHO DID ALL FORBIDDEN THINGS
THE THUNDER SPIRITS
NERRIVIK
THE WIFE WHO LIED
KGSSAGSSUK, THE HOMELESS BOY WHO BECAME A STRONG MAN
QASIAGSSAQ, THE GREAT LIAR
THE EAGLE AND THE WHALE
THE TWO LITTLE OUTCASTS
ATDLARNEQ, THE GREAT GLUTTON
NGNGUJUK
TRSSUAQ
PUAGSSUAQ
TUNGUJULUK AND SAUNIKOQ
ANARTEQ
THE GUILLEMOT THAT COULD TALK
KNAGSSUAQ
Plains Indians
Jicarilla Apache Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. [1911] (Anthropological
Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII.)
The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of
The Teton Dakota. by J. R. Walker. [1917] (Anthropological Papers
of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XVI, Part II)
Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche
[1889]
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa [1901]
IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS
IKTOMI'S BLANKET
IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT
IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE
IKTOMI AND THE FAWN
THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
THE TREE-BOUND
SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE
IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE
DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL
THE TOAD AND THE BOY
IYA, THE CAMP-EATER
MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
THE WARLIKE SEVEN
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin [1916]
The Forgotten Ear of Corn
The Little Mice
The Pet Rabbit
The Pet Donkey
The Rabbit and the Elk
The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
The Faithful Lovers
The Artichoke and the Muskrat
The Rabbit, and the Bear with the Flint Body
Story of the Lost Wife
The Raccoon and the Crawfish
Legend of Standing Rock
Story of the Peace Pipe
A Bashful Courtship
The Simpleton's Wisdom
Little Brave and the Medicine Woman
The Bound Children
The Signs of Corn
Story of the Rabbits
How the Rabbit Lost His Tail
Unktomi and the Arrowheads
The Bear and the Rabbit Hunt Buffalo
The Brave Who Went on the Warpath Alone and Won the Name of
the Lone Warrior
The Sioux Who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter
The Boy and the Turtles
The Hermit, or the Gift of Corn
The Mysterious ButteThe Wonderful Turtle
The Man and the Oak
Story of the Two Young Friends
The Story of the Pet Crow
The "Wasna" (Pemmican Man) and the Unktomi (Spider)
The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter
The Story of the Pet Crane
White Plume
Story of Pretty Feathered Forehead
The Four Brothers or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy)
The Unktomi (Spider), Two Widows and the Red Plums
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