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Indian Folklore

Aadizookaanag -- Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths - Essay on Indian legends as cultural property, with links to authentic sources of folktales.
Bladder-Head Boy - A Kaska legend recalling the now-extinct woolly mammoth.
Canku Ota: Stories Index - Archive of native legends and folktales published in this Indian cultural newsletter.
The Children and the Hummingbird - Excerpt from a book of Hopi legends.
A Collection of Yukon River Indian Legends - Small e-text collection of tales.
Eldrbarry's Raven Tales - Collection of Indian legends from the Pacific Northwest.
First People Legends - Online collection of more than 1300 tales from the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Indian Legends - Tribal index of Native American stories. With links and a discussion forum.
Indian Story and Song from North America - Nineteenth-century collection of native legends by Alice Fletcher.
Indian Why Stories - Frank Linderman's 1915 compilation of various native legends and tales.
The Ku Bird and the Walking Stone - Two tales excerpted from a book of Yaqui myths.
The Legend of Eagleman - An excerpt from a collection of Pima Indian tales.
Native American Literature - Repository for legends and traditional stories from hundreds of tribes.
Native American Lore - Index of Indian legends by title and theme.
Native American Stories - Collection of Indian legends, mostly unattributed, from various tribal traditions.
Native American Trickster Tales - Four texts from different tribal traditions, with introduction and links.
Nevada Native Story-Telling - Several Paiute and Shoshone legends, with lesson plans for using them in the classroom.
Piasa Bird Legend - The fictional Illinois "Indian" legend of the Piasa Bird, and the explanation of its true origins (a white fictionwriter invented it in the 19th century).
The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife - Nineteenth-century recounting of a Haida legend.
Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans - Lumbee, Cherokee, and Occaneechi traditional storytelling and stories.
Tales from the Totems of the Hidery - Nineteenth-century collection of Haida legends.
Tales of the North American Indians - 1929 collection of Indian legends and stories.
Zuñi Folk Tales - Frank Hamilton Cushing's 1901 collection of legends and stories.

How Dogs Came to the Indians - An Ojibwa legend, explaining how dogs came to man.
Indian Superstitions and Legends - Traditional tales and local stories of the Pokagan Algonquins.
Legends - The Saga of Iyash, in English and Severn Ojibwe (Oji-Cree).
Nanabush Stories and other Ottawa Legends - Index of Ottawa Indian legends, folktales, and mythology. Including definitions of Nanabush, Gchi Mnidoo, Nookmis, and the Windigo.
Ojibway Customs and Culture - A series of downloadable PDFs of Ojibway traditions and stories, including the Creation Story (Turtle Island).
Ojibway Dreamcatcher Origin Story - The Ojibway Dreamcatcher origin story as collected from Lyn Dearborn, Mary Ritchie, and with assistance from Canadian elders.
Ojibwe Oral Tradition - Seventeen traditional stories from the Chippewa tribe.
Oral Traditions, The Four Colors, and the Turtle Clan Stories - A collection of the folklore behind the oral traditions of the Ojibway as well as the stories of the Four traditional colors and how the Turtle clan came to be.
Ottawa story of the Union of Corn and Bean - An Anishinabe (Ottawa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) tale of why corn and bean plants are always planted together. This story involves the squash maiden, bean maiden and corn.
Tales of the North American Indians - A collection of Northern Tribe folklore including Manabozho (the trickster) and the Other World.
Turtle gets a Shell - The Anishinabe tale of how the turtle got its shell.

Apache Creation Legend - Traditional tribal myth.
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts - 1938 collection of legends and traditional songs in Apache and English.
The Jicarilla Genesis - The Southwest Indian creation myth cycle as recorded by James Mooney.
Myths of the Jicarilla Apache - 1898 recording of several traditional legends.

Blackfeet Creation Tale - Origin legend told by a tribal elder.
Blackfeet Tales - Five Napi (Old Man) legends from the Piegan and Siksika tribes.
How the Worm Pipe Came to the Blackfoot - A Siksika legend.
Native American Legends - Selection of Blackfeet and Kiowa tales.

Cherokee Legend - The story of how Opossum got his bare tail.
Cherokee Legends - Traditional stories retold by Eastern Cherokee children.
Cherokee Myths And Legends - Essay discussing the tribe's oral tradition.
Cherokee Stories - Archive of legends and traditional tales from an Indian cultural organization.
Origin of Disease and Medicine - A traditional Tsalagi folktale.
The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting - A Tsalagi legend recorded by James Mooney.

Birch Bark Legends of Niagara - Nineteenth-century collection of Six Nations tales.
De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha - Legends surrounding the historic Indian leaders Hiawatha and Dekanawida.
Iroquois Confederacy Stories - Collection of traditional Haudenosaunee legends.
Iroquois Myths and Legends - The Haudenosaunee creation myth and two Oneida tales.
Legend of the Big Dipper - An unattributed Haudenosaunee tale.
Seneca Indians: Stories and Legends - Traditional tales from the Seneca Nation.

Looking Back: The Lenni-Lenape and The Red Record - Article endorsing the authenticity of the controversial "Red Record" (considered by others to be a hoax).
Walam Olum - Excerpt from the controversial Delaware "Red Record" of Rafinesque.
The Walam Olum of Constantine Rafinesque - Discussion of the Delaware Walam Olum and whether or not it was a forgery.

Anasazi Diaspora - The fate of the ancient Anasazi as told by Dine artist Shonto Begay.
The Navajo Creation Story - Unattributed recounting of the Diné origin myth.
Noqoìlpi, the Gambler - Dine myth about a wager between Navajo and Pueblo gods.

Camping With the Sioux - Folktales and corrupted Iktomi myths from the 1881 fieldwork diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher.
Dahcotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling - Scanned-in text of the 1818 collection of Dakota tradition.
A Dakota Legend of Creation - Origin myth with a brief glossary of Siouan gods.
Iktomi and Coyote - An annotated Dakota legend.
Old Indian Legends - Traditional stories from 20th-century Dakota author Zitkala-Sa.

Miracle: White Buffalo of Prophecies - Reprinted newspaper article about the birth of the prophecied white buffalo calf and American Indian reaction to her.
Miracle's Website - Webpage dedicated to white buffalo in South Dakota, considered miraculous by Lakota people. Overview of some prophecies supporting this belief.
White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings the First Pipe - The prophecy of Ptesanwin as told by Joseph Chasing Horse.

The Abenaki Perspective on Storytelling - Author Joseph Bruchac on his tribe's oral tradition. Three traditional folktales are also presented.
Acacia Artisans: Stories and Facts - Penobscot legends and miscellaneous Indian oral history.
Geow-lud-mo-sis-eg - A tale of magical little beings in Maliseet folklore.
Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales - Overview of the oral tradition, the Kluskap cycle, and folktales translated from the original Indian languages.
Mi'kmaq Indian Cinderella and the Invisible One - Micmac-French fusion legend, with critical interpretation by an Ojibwe author.
Of Glooskap's Birth - Deconstruction of a 19th-century folklorist's embellishments to the Glooskap myth cycle.
Teachings from the Medicine Wheel - Five traditional stories in English, Micmac and Maliseet.


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