The Mythology of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi
Sacred Narratives, Creation Stories, Ritual Songs, and Cosmologies of Indigenous North AmericaBy Lewis Spence, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, James Mooney, Erminnie A. Smith
Length69h 54m
About this audiobook
The Mythology of Cherokee, Iroquois, Navajo, Siouan and Zuñi gathers accounts of Indigenous cosmology, sacred narrative, ceremonial life, origin traditions, and culture heroes from several North American nations. Ranging from comparative mythographic synthesis to ethnographic transcription and interpretive commentary, the volume preserves strikingly different narrative textures: creation cycles, animal figures, ritual knowledge, and stories that situate human communities within animate landscapes. Its breadth makes visible both affinities and irreducible distinctions among the traditions represented. The contributors—Lewis Spence, James Owen Dorsey, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Washington Matthews, James Mooney, and Erminnie A. Smith—were influential early investigators of Native American languages, religions, and oral literatures. Their writings belong to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century development of American anthropology and folklore studies, and consequently require attentive reading in light of the period's collecting practices and interpretive assumptions. Yet their varied fieldwork, documentation, and comparative approaches bring together a substantial record of traditions transmitted by Indigenous knowledge keepers. This collection is valuable for readers of mythology, folklore, Indigenous studies, and the history of anthropology. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare narrative forms and religious worlds within one volume while considering the conditions under which they were recorded. Read critically and comparatively, it fosters a rich dialogue among regional traditions, scholarly methods, and enduring questions of cultural memory.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length69 hrs 54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Norse Legends (Annotated)
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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