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A descendant of Crazy Horse adapts Lakota spiritual wisdom and traditions to modern life, using poetry, songs, and folklore to introduce fundamental ideas about the essential twelve qualities of human character that help readers learn how to live in the world. Read by Joseph M. Marshall III. Book available.

A descendant of Crazy Horse adapts Lakota spiritual wisdom and traditions to modern life, using poetry, songs, and folklore to introduce fundamental ideas about the essential twelve qualities of human character that help readers learn how to live in the world. Read by Joseph M. Marshall III. Book available.

When Rabbit becomes jealous of Otter's beautiful coat, which causes his own beautiful tail to be ignored, he plots to steal the coat and become popular again.

Product Description: Among the Kiowa, storytelling takes place under familiar circumstances. A small group of relatives and close friends gather. Tales are informative as well as entertaining. Joking and teasing are key components. Group participation is expected...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A descendant of Crazy Horse adapts Lakota spiritual wisdom and traditions to modern life, using poetry, songs, and folklore to fundamental ideas about the essential twelve qualities of human character that help readers how to live in the world. Reprint.

A descendant of Crazy Horse adapts the Lakota way to modern life, using poetry, songs, and folklore to teach basic wisdom about how to live in the world. 15,000 first printing.

Brave Bear outwits four ghosts who are trying to scare him

A breathtaking collection of three complete classics--Her Seven Brothers, The Gift of the Sacred Dog, and The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses--displays the author's brilliant artwork and his passion for the Native American Landscape and rich storytelling tradition.

A greedy Dakota woman takes the beans collected by Heetunka

After tricking some prairie dogs into becoming his dinner, Iktomi is himself outwitted by Coyote

The following traditions are the result of independent research among the Arapaho by George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber. The traditions which are followed by the letter Dwere obtained by the former in behalf of the Field Columbian Museum among theS outhern Arapaho ofO klahoma; those followed by the letter Kwere collected by the latter among theS outhern Arapaho ofO klahoma and theN orthern Arapaho of Wyoming, for the American Museum of Natural History as part of theM rs. Morris K. Jesup Expedition. Each author is entirely responsible for his own material including abstracts and notes. The greater part of the material recorded by both authors was obtained through Cleaver Warden, a full-blood. Certain traditions forming part of the research of the senior author among the Arapaho have been incorporated in a paper devoted to theS un-dance. The contribution of the junior author was originally intended to be issued asP art II. ofT he Arapaho in Vol. XVIII. of theB ulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org (view table of contents)

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions. Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature. The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.

Product Description: Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it...read more

'More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa - funny and fantastic yarns and anecdotes of pioneer vintage that belie the erroneous notion that the men and women who settled the Plains were 'grimly serious' forerunners of Grant Wood's farming couple' - "Publishers Weekly". 'The compiler of "A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore" [also a Bison Book] has now collected tall tales, lies, and fantabulous descriptions from the Plains states. These constitute a jackpot of pioneer humor; and by making them available in one volume, the author has preserved a lively segment of popular culture' - "Library Journal".'Roger Welsch has an uncanny facility for producing books in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Like his earlier "Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House", this volume is a collection of many bits and pieces that, taken as a whole, present a vivid picture of life on the American prairie' - "Journal of American Folklore". Roger Welsch has written numerous books. He delivers a "Postcard from Nebraska" on CBS Sunday Morning.