AADIZOOKAANAG -- Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths

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PLAINS TRIBES How the Worm Pipe Came to the Blackfoot A Scarface Story told to anthropologist George Bird Grinnell sometime before he published it in 1900. See University of Nebreska Press booknote of a Blackfoot myths collection edited by Clark Wissler, originally published in 1908. Little Friend Coyote Blackfoot/Piegan Romance As told to George Bird Grinnell, publishd in Harpers, 1900. This isn't exactly a legend a Coyote helps a young woman regain her true love it's a romantic tale. Book doc in previous link to University of Nebraska Press. Etext. The Girl Who Was the Ring (Pawnee legend) As told to George Bird Grinnell, published in 1901, Harpers' Magazine, and a book of legends Grinnel collected from Plains tribes about the punishments of those who are stingy (see University of Nebraska Press booknote). Medicine Grizzly Bear A Pawnee Story As told to George Bird Grinnell, published in Harpers', 1901. E-text. The End of the World: Lakota story told by Jenny Leading Cloud (White River, Rosebud reservation, SD) to Richard Erdoes in 1967. Typed from Erdoes and Ortiz, American Indian Myths and Legends (see Book Review. 3 legends from Erdoes and Ortiz: The Legend of the Flutes, Brule Sioux, (as told to Erdoes in 1967 by Henry Crow Dog who visited him in New York); Why Mole Lives Underground (included by Erdoes from an 1890 Cherokee collection by James Mooney); A Legend of Multnomah Falls, (copped by Erdoes from Ella Clark, Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies, 1966.) All are from Erdoes' tales of love and lust section.

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