A Choctaw Legend The Choctaw People say that when the People first came up out of the ground, People were encased in cocoons, their eyes closed, their limbs folded tightly to their bodies. And this was true of all People, the Bird People, the Animal People, the Insect People, and the Human People. The Great […]
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The Beaver and the Frog Woman.
Once in the long ago, Skel’aw’ (beaver) had a large family of young men and not far from the beaver house, there lived a lone woman, Waxes was her name. It was during the wintertime so it was very cold and all the land was covered with snow. The ice was very thick on the […]
The festival of the Sun
An Inca Legend The word Raymi is equivalent to white mans word Easter. Among the four festivals which the Kings celebrated in the city of Cuzco, the most solemn was that in honor of the Sun, during the month of June. It was called Yntip Raymi, which means the “Solemn Feast of the Sun.” They […]
A Man’s Revenge – A Winnebago Legend
A Winnebago (Hotcâk) Legend When they told stories, people always said of what tribe they were. That they said. They are Hotcâk and numbered only about a thousand. They built a village. People were constantly on the go and kept moving. In the early days, they ate a variety of meat. They used to track […]
The origin of some Oraibi Clans
A Hopi Legend Away down the sípapu in the under-world the people lived in the same manner as they do here. The wife of the chief of the Bear clan often danced in the Butterfly dance (Políhtikivee), at which the chief got angry. The Spider clan had also a chief. The Bear chief sent the […]
Of the adventure with Mooin, The Bear; It being the third and last time that Master Rabbit made a fool of himself
An Algonquin Legend Now, truly, one would think that after all that had befallen Master Mahtigwess, the Rabbit, that he would have had enough of trying other people’s trades; but his nature was such that, having once set his mighty mind to a thing, little short of sudden death would cure him. And being one […]
The Foster Child Of The Deer
A Zuni Legend Once, long, long ago, at Háwikuh, there lived a maiden most beautiful. In her earlier years her father, who was a great priest, had devoted her to sacred things, and kept her always in the house secure from the gaze of all men, and thus she grew. She was so beautiful that […]
Old Man Rain and the Horned Snake (Lightning)
A Seneca Legend Once, when the Senecas were at war with the Cherokees, they became very hungry. They spotted a bear and chased it until it ran into a den. One of the men followed the bear into the den. After going some distance inside, he no longer saw the bear but instead saw a […]
Why the Buzzard’s head is bare
A Cherokee Legend The buzzard used to have a fine topknot, of which he was so proud that he refused to eat carrion, and while the other birds were pecking at the body of a deer or other animal which they had found he would strut around and say: “You may have it all, it […]
A meal for Nata’Yowa – A Blackfoot Legend
A Blackfoot Legend One day, late in the fall, Napi was out walking, when he came upon a number of gophers playing near the remains of a camp-fire. It was a raw, cold day, and the gophers were taking turns warming themselves in the ashes of the fire. One gopher would lie down on the […]
