General Note:
Originally published: Myths and legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. Chicago : A.C. McClurg, 1914.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 25) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The earth-maker : Winnebago -- Creation : Chitimacha -- Creation of the races : Biloxi -- Story of the creation : Ojibwa -- Creation (a fragment) : Ojibwa -- Creation of the Mandans : Mandan -- The flood : Chitimacha -- The great flood (a fragment) : Mandan -- The great flood : Menomini -- Origin of fire : Menomini -- The thunderers and the origin of fire : Menomini -- The origin of fire : Chitimacha -- The gifts of the Sky God : Chitimacha -- Mondamin : Ojibwa -- Mondamin : Ottawa -- The corn woman : Cherokee -- Discovery of wild rice : Ojibwa -- Origin of wild rice : Ojibwa -- Origin of Winnebago : Menomini -- The origin of tobacco : Menomini -- Origin of maple sugar : Menomini -- Manabush and the moose : Menomini -- Origin of day and night : Menomini -- Origin of the bear : Cherokee -- Origin of the word chicago : Ojibwa -- Origin of the word chicago : Menomini -- The coming of Manabush : Menomini -- The story of Manabush : Menomini -- Manabozho and west : Ojibwa -- Manabush and the great fish : Menomini -- The departure of Manabush : Menomini -- The return of Manabush : Menomini -- The request for immortality : Menomini -- Peboan and Seegwun : Ojibwa -- The grave fires : Ojibwa -- The death trail : Cherokee -- The duck and the northwest wind : Ojibwa -- How the hunter destroyed snow : Menomini -- The pipe of peace : Ojibwa -- The thunder's nest : Ojibwa -- The pipestone : Sioux -- The pipestone : Knisteneaux -- Pau-puk-kee-wis : Ojibwa -- Iagoo, the boaster : Ojibwa -- Ojeeg, the summer-maker : Ojibwa -- Rabbit goes duck hunting : Cherokee -- Rabbit and the tar baby : Biloxi -- Rabbit and tar wolf : Cherokee -- Rabbit and panther : Menomini -- How rabbit stole otter's coat : Cherokee -- Rabbit and bear : Biloxi -- Why deer never eat men : Menomini -- How rabbit snared the sun : Biloxi -- When the orphan trapped the sun : Ojibwa -- The hare and the lynx : Ojibwa -- Welcome to a baby : Cherokee -- Baby song : Cherokee -- Song to the firefly : Ojibwa -- Song of the mother bears : Cherokee -- The man in the stump : Cherokee -- The ants and the katydids : Biloxi -- When the owl married : Cherokee -- The kite and the eagle -- The linnet and the eagle : Ojibwa -- How partridge got his whistle : Cherokee -- How kingfisher got his bill : Cherokee -- Why the blackbird has red wings : Chitimacha -- Ball game of the birds and animals : Cherokee -- Why the birds have sharp tails : Biloxi -- The wildcat and the turkeys : Biloxi -- The brant and the otter : Biloxi -- The tiny frog and the panther -- The frightener of hunters : Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb) -- The hunter and the alligator : Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb) -- The groundhog dance : Cherokee -- The racoon [sic]: Menomini -- Why the opossum plays dead : Biloxi -- Why the 'possum's tale is bare : Cherokee -- Why 'possum has a large mouth : Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb) -- The porcupine and the two sisters : Menomini -- The wolf and the dog : Cherokee -- The catfish and the moose : Menomini -- Turtle : Menomini -- The worship of the sun : Ojibwa -- Tashka and Walo : Choctaw (Bayou Lacomb) -- Sun and moon : Menomini -- The moon person : Biloxi -- The star creatures : Cherokee -- Meteors : Menomini -- The aurora borealis : Menomini -- The west wind : Chitimacha -- The lone lightning : Ojibwa -- The thunders : Cherokee -- Months of the year : Natchez -- Why the oaks and sumachs [sic] redden : Fox -- The man of ice : Cherokee -- The Nunnehi : Cherokee -- The little people : Cherokee -- War song : Ojibwa -- The war medicine : Cherokee -- The coming of the white man : Wyandot.
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