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Tables of Contents for Artistry in Native American Myths
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
1 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ROOTS OF ETHNOPOETICS
3
26
Excerpt from Concerning the League (Iroquois)
3
2
Commentary
5
24
2 MYTHIC IMAGINING
29
66
The Sand Hills (Blackfoot)
29
1
Pulekukwerek and Thunder and Blood Money (Yurok)
30
1
Origin of Blood Money Settlement (Yurok)
31
1
Money Eats the Sky (Yurok)
32
1
Pulekukwerek Institutes Blood Money (Yurok)
33
1
Scarface (Blackfoot)
34
8
Legend of Star Boy (Blackfoot)
42
9
Excerpt from Fools Crow (Blackfoot)
51
11
Commentary
62
33
3 HUMAN CULTURES, ANIMAL CULTURES
95
82
The Woman Who Married the Bear (Tlingit)
95
15
The Girl and Her Younger Brother (Beaver)
110
5
Bear Man (Cherokee)
115
3
Star Girl (Kiowa)
118
3
Grizzly Woman Killed People (Chinook-Clackamas)
121
17
Commentary
138
39
4 TRICKSTER-TRANSFORMER'S ORALITY
177
78
Trickster Tales (Winnebago)
177
3
Coyote and Prairie Dogs (Navajo)
180
8
Coyote and Bull (Nez Perce)
188
2
Wasps Catch Coyote's Head in an Old Horse Skull (Lipan Apache)
190
1
Blood-Clot Boy (Sioux-Dakota)
191
4
What Coyote Did in This Land (Chinook-Wishram)
195
15
How Wolf and Coyote Went Away (Chemehuevi)
210
14
Commentary
224
31
5 MYTH AS HISTORICAL PROCESS
255
32
Stone Boy (Sioux-Dakota)
255
4
The Stone Boy (Sioux-Lakota)
259
13
Commentary
272
15
Index
287