Indian Tales of North America
176 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 May 1961
ISBN:9780292735064
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Edited by Tristram Potter Coffin
University of Texas Press
This collection of folktales, originally published in 1961, presents stories from a wide range of North American indigenous peoples. The stories are grouped into three categories: “The Way the World Is,” “What Man Must Know and Learn,” and “The Excitement of Living.”
Tristram P. Coffin (1922–2012) was Professor of English and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Preface
- Remarks on Reading the Tales
- The Tales
- Part 1: The Way the World Is
- 1. The Emergence (Hopi)
- 2. The Earthdiver (Western Mono)
- 3. Ouiot and Frog (San Luiseño)
- 4. Theft of Fire (Southern Paiute)
- 5. Theft of Light (Tahltan)
- 6. How the Four Winds Were Created (Ojibwa)
- 7. Coyote Arranges the Seasons of the Year (Shasta)
- 8. The Origin of the Pleiades (Onondaga)
- 9. The Girl Who Married a Dog (Cheyenne)
- 10. The Deer and the Rainbow (Wyandot)
- 11. The Frogs in the Moon (Lillooet)
- 12. Afterbirth and Lodge Boy (Wichita)
- 13. Loon-Woman (Shasta)
- 14. Coyote Kills the Sucking Monster (Flathead)
- 15. Walking Skeleton (Western Mono)
- Part 2: What Man Must Know and Learn
- 16. Bloodclot (Southern Ute)
- 17. The Story of Sweet Medicine (Cheyenne)
- 18. Yellowtop-to-Head Woman (Cheyenne)
- 19. The Origin of Corn (Wabanaki)
- 20. Forgetting the Song (Zuñi)
- 21. The Conquering Gambler (Tahltan)
- 22. Star Husband (Sekani)
- 23. Northern Lights (Wabanaki)
- 24. The Land of the Dead (Coos)
- 25. Water Jar Boy (Tewa)
- 26. The Sun-Snare (Tête de Boule)
- 27. The Lecherous Father and His Daughter (Southern Ute)
- 28. The Toothed Vagina (Yurok)
- Part 3: The Excitement of Living
- 29. Rolling Skull (Cheyenne)
- 30. Rolling Rock (Flathead)
- 31. The Man Who Married a Branch (Lillooet)
- 32. The Origin of the Narwhal (Eskimo)
- 33. Grizzly Bear and Doe (lassik)
- 34. Turtle’s War-Party (Plains Ojibwa)
- 35. Porcupine and Caribou (Carrier)
- 36. Coyote Borrows Feathers (Uintah Ute)
- 37. Why Buzzard is Bald (Iowa)
- 38. The Hoodwinked Dancers (Comanche)
- 39. The Bungling Host (Southern Ute)
- 40. The Eye-Juggler (Cheyenne)
- 41. Adventures of Naniboju (Mississaga)
- 42. Adventures of Whiskey Jack (Plains Cree)
- 43. Coyote’s Amorous Adventures (Shasta)
- 44. Turtle’s Sacred War-Bundle (Iowa)
- 45. Sleeping with a Log (Iowa)
- Notes to the Tales
