Indian why stories : sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Expanded ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Why the chipmunk's back is striped
- How the ducks got their fine feathers
- Why the kingfisher always wears a war-bonnet
- Why the curlew's bill is long and crooked
- Old-man remakes the world
- Why Blackfeet never kill mice
- How the otter skin became great "medicine"
- Old-man steals the sun's leggings
- Old-man and his conscience
- Old-man's treachery
- Why the night-hawk's wings are beautiful
- Why the mountain-lion is long and lean
- The fire-leggings
- The moon and the great snake
- Why the deer has no gall
- Why Indians whip the buffalo-berries from the bushes
- Old-man and the fox
- Why the birch-tree wears the slashes in its bark
- Mistakes of Old-man
- How the man found his mate
- Dreams
- Retrospection
- Introduction to the stories in verse
- The stories in verse.