Record details

• ISBN: 080326660X
• ISBN: 9780803266605
• Physical Description: xxxii, 279 pages ; 23 cm
• Edition: Bison books ed.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: New York : G.E. Stechert, 1932, in series: Publications of the American Ethnological Society ; v. 14. With new introd.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Iktomi conquers Iya, the eater -- Iktomi takes his mother-in-law on the warpath -- Iktomi marries his daughter -- Iktomi tricks the pheasants -- Iktomi kills the Deer Boy -- Iktomi and the buffalo -- Iktomi and the raccoon-skin -- Iktomi in a skull -- Doubleface tricks a girl -- Doubleface steals the virgin -- Doubleface and the four brothers -- Coyote and bear -- Turtle -- Meadow-lark and the rattlesnake -- Boy-beloved's blanket -- Stone Boy (literal translations end here) -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy -- The Turtle-Moccasin Boy, continued -- White-Plume Boy -- Blood-Clot Boy -- The Eagle Boy -- The hero overcomes the cold -- Heart-killer -- Two men rescue a buffalo-man's arm -- The sacred arrow -- The Feather Man -- Tazi's adventures (European) -- The blue egg (European) -- The Elk Man -- The Deer Woman -- The Deer Woman, Yankton version, in Yankton dialect -- A woman kills her daughter -- The stingy hunter -- Incest -- The wicked sister-in-law -- The man who married a buffalo woman -- The rolling skull -- The twin-spirits -- The boy with buffalo power -- A Pawnee story of aid given by the buffalo -- A woman becomes a horse -- Fish-butte -- Bewitched by the buffalo -- Owl's eyes -- Standing rock legend -- The friendship song -- The lovers -- A doubleface steals a child -- The warriors who became snakes -- She-Who-Dwells-in-the-Rocks -- A bad deed -- A man kills his friend -- The gift of the horse -- Old Woman's Lake -- A woman joins her lover in death -- How Bear Woman got her name -- A ghost story -- Two enemy scouts make an agreement -- Crow-Dakota woman -- A woman kills her husband's slayer -- Gartersnake-earing-wearers -- Owner-of-White-Buffaloes-Woman -- A man who profited by returning dead bodies of enemies -- Pouting girl finds a husband.

Language Note:

Dakota with English translations.

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