Native American Storytelling

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His previous publications include Ishi in Three Centuries (ed. 2003), Artistry in American Indian Myths (1998), and Ecological Literary Criticism (1994). He is Editor Emeritus of Studies in American Indian Literature.

• List of Figures viiiTo The Reader 1Tewa 141 "Where they were living lived Laughing Warrior Girl..." 16Kalispellm 192 "A young man (Rabbit) lived with his grandmother. One day he pitied her..." 19Kathlamet 213 "There was a chief of a town. His relatives lived in five towns...." 22Tillamook 254 "Wild Woman was living alone. Her husband, High Class Crane, ..." 27Sioux 395 "A man lived with his two wives and a brother. One day the brother..." 41Origins 45Cherokee (A) 476 "In the beginning there was no fire, and the world was cold, until..." 47Gros Ventre 497 "The people before the present people were wild. They did not know..." 49Cherokee (B) 528 "When I was a boy this is what the old men told me they had heard..." 53Seneca (A) 609 "A long time ago human beings lived high up in what is now called..." 61Seneca (B) 6410 "There was a lodge in the forest where very few people ever came,..." 65Eskimo 6711 "Two men were trappers. One of them kept catching a lot of groundhogs;..." 69Cherokee (C) 7212 "Once when all the people of the settlement were out..." 73Trickster 75Three Chinook-Wishram Coyote Tales 7713 "Coyote heard about two women who had fish..." 7814 "A certain old man was sitting in the trail with his penis..." 8015 "Again Coyote travelled up the river. In the water he saw..." 83Clackamas (A) 8616 "Coyote and his five children lived there, four males,..." 87Clackamas (B) 9117 "They lived there, Seal, her daughter, and Seal's younger brother...." 93Hopi 9518 "In Oraibi the people were living. At the west end of the south row..." 97Wintu 10219 "Long ago, there came into being some people who had four children,..." 103Yana 10520 "'Now dig for roots. The nuts are already ripe– let's climb..."' 107Navajo 10921 "On the morrow, when he went forth on his hunt, his father..." 110Blackfoot 11822 "'There are two bright stars,' Brings-Down-the-Sun said, 'that sometimes...'" 120Onondaga 12723 "Tall, fierce and hostile, they were a powerful tribe, the Stone Giants!..." 128Further Reading 131Index 134