Record details

• ISBN: 0803237464 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780803237469 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 128 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128).

Formatted Contents Note:

Stories. Introduction -- Chinnubbie and the owl -- Chinnubbie scalps the squaws -- Indian anecdotes -- Uncle Dick and Uncle Will -- Uncle Dick's sow -- "Jes bout a mid'lin', sah" -- Mose and Richard -- Two famous prophets -- A foxy old buck -- Orations. Introduction -- The Indian: what of him? -- Sequoyah -- Room at the top -- Col. McIntosh: a few words to his memory -- The Creek opening guns -- Muscogee (Creek) oral traditions. Introduction -- The origins of music according to the Creek medicine-men -- The 'possum and the skunk: or how the 'possum lost the hair off his tail -- A Creek fable -- Fable of the foolish young bear -- The devil's parodies -- A fable (January 31, 1902) -- A fable (February 7, 1902) -- A fable (February 14, 1902) -- Story by an Indian raconteur.

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Creek Indians > Folklore.
Tales > Indian Territory.