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American Indian myths and legends

Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008 (Added Author). Ortiz, Alfonso, 1939-1997 (Added Author).

Summary: Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0394507967
  • ISBN: 0394740181 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780394507965
  • ISBN: 9780394740188 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xv, 527 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1984.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 522-525) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around : tales of human creation -- The place of emergence : tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit : tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero : monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup : war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes : tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries : trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs : stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night : ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever : visions of the end.
Subject: Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Religion
Indigenous spirituality -- North America
Indigenous mythology -- North America

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at South Central Regional Library.

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Miami Library 398.2 Ame (Text) 35864000607174 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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