MS 2708 Arapaho stories collected by Truman Michelson
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2708
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Miscellaneous stories; some texts and translations part, probably all, 1910" 4/15/2014.
name: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Little Shield
label: Informant
content: Wolf Bear
label: Informant
content: White Breast
label: Creator
content: Goggles, John
topic: label: Topic
content: Arapaho language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Little Shield
label: Informant
content: Wolf Bear
label: Informant
content: White Breast
label: Creator
content: Goggles, John
culture: label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 187 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2708
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Folklore
label: Type
content: Narratives
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Arapaho stories collected by Truman Michelson from Little Shield, Wolf Bear, White Breast, and John Goggles, who also served as translator. There are stories handwritten in Arapaho, some of which include interlinear translations in English by Goggles. There are also free English translations by Goggles and Michelson in handwritten and typed form. The stories include: "Found in the grass;" "The girl and the porcupine;" "Blue bird, Elk woman, Buffalo woman;" Arapaho origin story; and the story of why white owls dislike hot weather.