Record details

• ISBN: 0399525467
• ISBN: 9780399525469
• Physical Description: xi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Perigee book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Spider Woman saves Ko-chin-ni-na-ko : Keresan, Southwest -- Spider Woman's web : Athabaskan, Alaska -- Qi-yo Ke-pe, the great healer : Keresan, Southwest -- The woman whose heart became ice : Micmac, Northeast -- Sedna, mistress of the underworld : Inuit, Alaska -- The worm that devoured women : Cherokee, Southeast -- White Star Women and Great Star Man : Pawnee, Great Plains -- Ataensie, the woman who fell from the sky : Iroquois, Northeast -- The origin of corn : Abenaki, Northeast -- First woman and the people : Navajo, Southwest -- White Buffalo Woman : Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains -- The buffalo wife : Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains -- Sweet Corn Woman's tale : Tewa, Southwest -- The women warriors : Tewa, Southwest -- Coyote marries his daughter : Ute, Great Basin -- The abandoned children : White Clay People (Gros Ventre), Great Plains -- The two sisters and their aunt : Miwok, California -- The woman who kept secrets : Hopi, Southwest -- The quilt of men's eyes : Seneca, Northeast -- The kidnapped wife and the dream helper : Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains -- The woman who built the first medicine lodge : Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains -- The dream of Double Woman : Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains -- The woman who married the sea : Samish (Coast Salish), Northwest Coast -- The beginning of wisdom and law : Yakima, Plateau -- Dancing for Nomtaimet : Wintu, California.

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Indians of North America > Folklore.
Women > Folklore.
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