The bear knife, and other American Indian tales
By: collected by Ruth-Inge Heinze ; illustrated by Scott Fray.
Publisher: Bramble Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Norfolk, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Folklore.; Tales -- United States.
Table of contents: title: Tales of the beginning: Creation story (Sedonia Cahill); title: How the world came into being (Iroquois); title: The first fire (Iroquois); title: Origin of the peace pipe (Omaha); title: Origin of the thunder pipe (Blackfoot); title: Origin of the bear spear (Blackfoot); title: Origin of the beaver bundle (Arikara); title: First medicine wheel (Jan Ogren as told by the circle of grandmother and grandfather story tellers); title: Origin of the strawberries (Iroquois); title: Origin of corn (Arikara); title: Tales of great men and women: Is'tu-un, the knife (Blackfoot/Adolf Spohr); title: Scarface or the first sweat lodge (Lewis E. Mehl); title: Big sister's sacrifice or how the Milky Way came into being (Lewis E. Mehl); title: Smoking-star I (Blackfoor); title: Smoking-star II (Blackfoot); title: Seven stars of the Big Dipper (Blackfoot); title: Falling-star (Dakota); title: Ghost tales: Buffalo spirit (Teton); title: Eagle's revenge (Iroquois); title: Birds omen (Dakota); title: Cross Bull and the ghost (Blackfoot); title: Cross-roads (Omaha); title: Singing ghost (Ponca); title: Man who shot a ghost (Teton); title: Man who wrestled a ghost (Teton); title: Ghost's revenge (Dakota); title: Fables: Old-woman-who-never-dies (Mandan); title: Old man and the squirrels (Blackfoot); title: Chief of the birds (Omaha); title: Buffalo Bill and the grizzly bear (Omaha); title: Race between hummingbird and crane (Iroquois); title: Why peasants pound the corn (Iroquois); title: Why turkeys gobble (Iroquois); title: Ikto and the snow storm (Teton); title: Ikto and the turtle (Teton); title: Ictinike and the turtle (Omaha); title: Ictinike and the creators (Omaha); title: Coyote and grey fox (Ponca); title: How hare escaped the wolves (Iroquois); title: How hare lost his fat (Omaha); title: How flint visited hare (Iroquois); title: How hare caught the sun in a trap (Omaha); title: Why stags have blunt teeth (Iroquois); title: Great-turtle on war path (Omaha); title: Tales from our time: A traditional story (Jurgen Kremer); title: Girl who wanted to know what it is like to be a butterfly (Jan Ogren); title: The singer (Sedonia Cahill, adapted from C.P. Estes' Women who run with the wolves); title: The village (Bird Brother)