Native American myths

Eddy, Steve. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0658021249 (pbk. : cover) :
ISBN: 9780658021244 (pbk. : cover)
Physical Description: print
xi, 129 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Publisher: London : Hodder Headline ; Lincolnwood (Chicago), Ill. : Contemporary Books, 2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references, Web sites (p. [125]-126) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to Native American myths -- The Lakota (Sioux) creation -- Emergence into the fourth world (Jicarilla Apache) -- Creation of the first man and first woman (Navajo) -- Changing woman (Navajo) -- The monster boys and the flood (Caddo) -- Arrow Boy (Cheyenne) -- White buffalo woman (Plains, especially Lakota) -- Stone Boy (Lakota) -- Rabbit Boy (Lakota) -- Long Arrow and the elk dogs (Blackfoot) -- The medicine grizzly bear (Pawnee) -- The powerful boy (Seneca) -- Sapana, the girl who climbed to the sky (Arapaho) -- Glooskap and the water monster (Algonquin) -- Monster-slayer and Born-of-Water visit the sun (Navajo) -- Coyote steals the light (Zuni) -- Girl who was the Ring (Pawnee) -- The severed head -- The loving husband (Zuni).