Artistry in Native American myths / Karl Kroeber.

Author/creator Kroeber, Karl
Format Book
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

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).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97051506
ISBN080322737X (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0803277857 (pa : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E98.R3 K76 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold