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Native American Mythology. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-12279-3. Bastian, Dawn Elaine; Judy K. Mitchell (2004). Handbook of Native American Mythology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-533-9. Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso: American Indian Myths and Legends (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) Ferguson, Diana (2001). Native American myths ...
The Raven shares the trickster nature with the coyote in Native American mythologies, but for the Zuni people he lacks the negative characteristics. The raven is not a traditional fetish of the Zuni but he, along with the Macaw play a part in the Zuni story of migration and is carved often in their artwork, typically carved from black marble ...
Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884. Glooscap (variant forms and spellings Gluskabe, Glooskap, Gluskabi, Kluscap, Kloskomba, or Gluskab) is a legendary figure of the Wabanaki peoples, native peoples located in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Atlantic Canada.
The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians is a book written by Lewis Spence and was first published in 1914 by London George G. Harrap & Company. It contains a collection of legends and myths of different Native American tribes and 32 coloured illustrations relating to some of the stories, which were created by James Jack. [1]
The Choctaw people of Tennessee and Mississippi tell the story of Grandmother Spider stealing fire, then after animals refused it, bringing fire to humans. [17] [18] Susan Hazen-Hammond (1997, 1999) compiled numerous tales collected from various tribes. [19] In the Pacific there is a connection between Spider Grandmother and the Moon Goddess. [20]
Coyote is a mythological character common to many cultures of the Indigenous peoples of North America, based on the coyote (Canis latrans) animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic , although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow eyes, a tail and blunt claws.
The story of a monster in Flathead Lake originates in a Kutenai traditional legend. According to the story, long ago, the first native tribe in the area lived on an island in the middle of the lake. One winter while crossing the frozen lake to move camp, two girls saw antlers approximately two feet in length protruding through the frozen ice.
Nanabozho can take the shape of male or female animals or humans in storytelling. Most commonly it is an animal such as a raven or coyote which lives near the tribe and which is cunning enough to make capture difficult. Nanabozho is a trickster figure in many First Nation storytellings. [2]