Artistry in Native American myths
- Title
- Artistry in Native American myths / Karl Kroeber.
- Published by
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1998.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 292 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- Excerpt from Concerning the League (Iroquois) -- The sand hills (Blackfoot) -- Pulekukwerek and thunder and blood money (Yurok) -- Origin of blood money settlement (Yurok) -- Money eats the sky (Yurok) -- Pulekulwerek institutes blood money (Yurok) -- Scarface (Blackfoot) -- Legend of star boy (Blackfoot) -- Excerpt form Fools Crow (Blackfoot) -- The woman who married the bear (Tlingit) -- The girl and her younger brother (Beaver) -- Bear man (Cherokee) -- Star girl (Kiowa) -- Grizzly woman killed people (Chinook-Clackamas) -- Trickster tales (Winnebago) -- Coyote and prairie dogs (Navajo) -- Coyote and bull (Nez Percé) -- Wasps catch coyote's head in an old horse skull (Lipan Apache) -- Blood-clot boy (Sioux-Dakota) -- What coyote did in this land (Chinook-Wishram) -- How wolf and coyote went away (Chemehuevi).
- Call number
- HBC 98-12584
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Kroeber, Karl, 1926-
- Title
- Artistry in Native American myths / Karl Kroeber.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- LCCN
- 97051506
- ISBN
- 080322737X (cl : alk. paper)
- 0803277857 (pa : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- HBC 98-12584