San Antonio College Library

Information about mythology of various tribes of Indians of North America; Cheyenne, Modoc, Iroquoian, Kiowa, Fox (Musquakie), Tewa, Navaho, Zuni, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Mikasuki, Jicarilla Apache, Sauk, Comanche, Ponca, and Hopi.

The purposes of this book is to help create an awareness of the special feelings that the North American Indian has for the universe and how they influence his life. A great conflict between the white man and the American Indian originated in their understandings of the natural world. For the Indian, the earth is his mother, the ground the womb which held him. Like all living things, he is but a part of nature, one with his surroundings.

"The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers...

A collection of stories which "demonstrate the power of animals in Native American traditions." Includes "Glossary and pronunciation key, Tribal Nation descriptions," and "Other versions of Native American stories."

In this reworking of Lewis Spence's 1914 work Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout on the history of Native Americans, their lifestyle, culture, and religion/mythology. He includes examples of myths from tribes omitted by Spence, such as the Inuit, a guide to tribes and their myths by region, and an A-Z of the chief gods,...

Presents twelve ghost stories drawn from Native American myth and legend, which deal with the rescue of souls and crossing over from the world of the living to that of the dead.

A collection of folktales of the native peoples, both Indian and Eskimo, of the Arctic, including Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland. Includes source notes, maps, drawings and bibliography.

"Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts."--Provided by publisher.

Presents a collection of 140 American Indian riddles translated from twenty different languages including Aztec, Maya, Comanche, and Pawnee.