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American Indian myths and legends / selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.

Erdoes, Richard, 1912- (Added Author). Ortiz, Alfonso, 1939- (Added Author).
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  • 1 copy at The Center Library.

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Record details

  • ISBN: 0394507967
  • ISBN: 0394740181 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xv, 527 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1984.

Content descriptions

General Note: Includes index.
Series statement from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. 522-525.
Formatted Contents Note: Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end.
Subject: Indian mythology > North America.
Indians of North America > Northwest, Pacific > Folklore.
Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Légendes.
Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Religion et mythologie.

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