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Legends

 


 
 

Acoma
Emerging into the Upper World

Aleut
The Fight for a Wife

Algonquin
Glooscap and the Baby

Alsea
Coyote and the two Frog Women

Athapascan
The Raven

Blackfoot
The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog
The Sacred Weed
Woman Choses Death
The Origins of the Buffalo Dance

Brule Sioux
Coyote and Wasichu
How Grandfather Peyote Came to the People
Siyotanka
Remaking the World
Tatanka Iyotake's Dancing Horse
The Coming of Wasichu
The Vision Quest
The Snake Brothers
The Man who was Afraid of Nothing
The Ghost Wife
The Dogs Hold an Election
Two Ghostly Lovers
Uncegila's Seventh Spot
How the Sioux Came To Be
Stone Boy
Wakinyan Tanka, the Great Thunderbird
A Legend of Devil's Tower

Caddo
Coyote and the Origin of Death
The Voice, the Flood and the Turtle

Cherokee
The Snake Boy
Hummingbird Brings Back Tobacco
Why Mole Lives Underground
Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun
Earth Making
Daughter of the Sun
The Origins and Prophecies of the Ani-Kituwagi

Cheyenne
Arrow Boy
Case of the Severed Head
Coyote Dances with a Star
The Quillwork Girl and her Seven Brothers
The Old Woman of the Spring
The Great Race
The Gnawing
The Double-Faced Ghost
Sun Teaches Veeho a Lesson
Great Medicine Makes a Beautiful Country
The Great Medicine Dance

Chinook
The First Ship
Blue Jay Visits Ghost Town

Cochiti
The Neglectful Mother
The Industrious Daughter Who Would Not Marry
Salt Woman is Refused Food
A Contest for Wives

Coos
The Woman who Married a Merman

Dieuguenos
The Story of the Creation

Flathead
Coyote Kills the Giant

Haida
The Flood
The Bear and his Indian Wife
Origin of the Gnawing Beaver

Hopi
The White Dawn of the Hopi
The Revenge of Blue Corn Ear Maiden
A Journey to the Skeleton House
Son of Light Kills the Monster

Inuit
Moon Rapes his Sister Sun

Iroquios
Why the Owl has Big Eyes
The Flying Head
Hiawatha the Unifier

Isleta Peublo
The Man who Married the Moon
The Skeleton who Fell Down Piece by Piece

Jicarilla Apache
The Jicarilla Genesis

Kalapuya
Coyote Takes Water from the Frog People

Karok
The Greedy Father
How Coyote got his Cunning

Kiowa
The Buffalo Go

Kwatkuitl
Always-Living-at-the-Coast
Wakiash and the First Totem Pole

Lumni
Komo Kulshan and his Two Wives

Maidu
Tolowim Woman and Butterfly Man

Metis
Little-Man-With-Hair-All-Over

Miwok
The Coming of Thunder

Modoc
When the Grizzlies Walked Upright
People Brought in a Blanket

Moroni
The Indian Legend of Moroni

Navajo
Spider Rock
Creation of First Man and First Woman

Nez Perce
How the Beaver Stole Fire from the Pines

North California Coast
The Earth Dragon

Northern Cheyenne
Doing a Trick with Eyeballs
The Life and Death of Sweet Medicine
The Death of Head Chief and Young Mule

Northwest Coast
Three-Legged Rabbit Fights the Sun
Salmon's Spirit

Northwest Territories
The Life-Saving Elk

Ojibwe
A Gust of Wind
The Foolish Girls

Okanogan
Creation of the Animal People

Oneida
The Warrior Maiden

Osage
Children of the Sun

Papago
Montezuma and the Great Flood

Passamaquoddy
Glooscap Fights the Water Monster
The Owl Husband
On the Trail of the Thunderbird

Pawnee
The Cheyenne Blanket

Penobscot
Corn Mother

Pequod
Big Eater's Wife

Pima
The Well-Baked Man
The Seer Who Would Not See
A Tale of Elder Brother
The Bluebird and Coyote

Pima-Papago
The Transformed Grandmother

Pomo
The Girl Who Married Rattlesnake

Seneca
The Powerful Boy

Serrano
The Land of the Dead

Shasta
How the People Got Arrowheads

Shoshoni
Wolf Tricks the Trickster

Sia
Men and Women Try Living Apart

Slavey
Keeping Warmth in a Bag

Snohomish
Pushing Up the Sky

Snoqualmic
Playing a Trick on the Moon

Southern Ute
The Bood Clot

Tewa
The Stolen Wife
The Origin of the Snake Dance
The Husband's Promise
How to Scare a Bear
Deer Hunter and Corn Maiden

Tiwa
Apache Chief Punishes his Wife

Tlingit
How Mosquitos Came To Be

Toltec
The Scabby One Lights up the Sky

Tshimshian
The Meeting of the Wild Animals
The Theft of Light
Walks-All-Over-the-Sky

Wasco
Coyote Places the Stars

White Mountain Apache
The Origin of Curing Ceremonies
Coyote Gets Rich off the White Man
Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch

White River Sioux
Brave Woman Counts Coup
Chief Roman Nose Looses his Medicine
The End of the World
Spotted Eagle and Black Crow
Rabbit Boy

Winnebago
Little Brother Snares the Sun

Wintu
Rolling Head

Yakima
Creation of the Yakima World

Yuma
The Good Twin and the Evil Twin

Zuni
The Spirit Wife
The Serpent of the Sea
Teaching the Mudheads how to Copulate
Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon
 
 
 
 
 

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