Native American Mythology
Sacred Narratives, Creation Stories, Trickster Tales, and Ceremonial Traditions of Indigenous North AmericaBy Lewis Spence, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, James Mooney, Erminnie A. Smith
Length69h 54m
About this audiobook
Native American Mythology gathers foundational accounts of Indigenous sacred narratives, ceremonial traditions, cosmologies, and heroic cycles as recorded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving among origin stories, animal-transformer tales, ritual explanations, and accounts of encounters with powerful beings, the volume displays considerable generic and regional range. Its most compelling selections reveal mythology not as static folklore but as a living framework for explaining land, kinship, morality, and the relation between human and other-than-human worlds. The contributors—Lewis Spence, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, James Mooney, and Erminnie A. Smith—belonged to the formative era of comparative mythology, ethnology, and folklore collecting. Their records preserve material associated with diverse Native nations while also bearing the marks of their period's scholarly assumptions, transcription practices, and colonial conditions. Read critically, these varied documents illuminate both the depth of Indigenous intellectual traditions and the history of their mediation through early anthropology. This volume rewards readers seeking an expansive introduction to Native American narrative traditions and to the archive through which many such traditions first entered print. Students of folklore, religion, Indigenous studies, and literary history will find in it a valuable occasion to compare motifs, narrative forms, and cultural worlds. Its juxtaposed voices foster productive dialogue about preservation, interpretation, and responsible reading.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length69 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Rome
2The Myths of the North American Indians
3Preface
4Chapter I: Divisions, Customs, and History of the Race (pt. 1)
5Chapter I: Divisions, Customs, and History of the Race (pt. 2)
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6Chapter II: The Mythologies of the North American Indians
7Chapter III: Algonquian Myths and Legends
8Chapter IV: Iroquois Myths and Legends
9Chapter V: Sioux Myths and Legends
10Chapter VI: Myths and Legends of the Pawnees
11Chapter VII: Myths and Legends of the Northern and North-Western Indians
12Note on Pronunciation
13Myths of the Cherokee
14I. Introduction
15The Traditionary Period
16The Period of Spanish Exploration—1540–?
17The Colonial and Revolutionary Period—1654–1784
18From the First Treaty to the Removal—1785–1838 (pt. 1)
19From the First Treaty to the Removal—1785–1838 (pt. 2)
20The Removal—1838–39
21The Arkansas Band—1817–1838
22The Texas Band—1817–1900
23The Cherokee Nation in the West—1840–1900
24The Eastern Band
25III. Notes to the Historical Sketch (pt. 1)
26III. Notes to the Historical Sketch (pt. 2)
27IV. Stories and Story Tellers
281. How the World was Made
292. The First Fire
303. Kana′tĭ and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn
314. Origin of Disease and Medicine
325. The Daughter of the Sun
336. How They Brought Back the Tobacco
347. The Journey to the Sunrise
358. The Moon and the Thunders
369. What the Stars are Like
3710. Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine
3811. The Milky Way
3912. Origin of Strawberries
4013. The Great Yellow-jacket: Origin of Fish and Frogs
4114. The Deluge
4215. The Fourfooted Tribes
4316. The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting
4417. How the Rabbit Stole the Otter’s Coat
4518. Why the Possum’s Tail is Bare
4619. How the Wildcat Caught the Gobbler
4720. How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit
4821. The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf
4922. The Rabbit and the Possum After a Wife
5023. The Rabbit Dines the Bear
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