American Indian trickster tales
By: Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz.
Contributors: Ortiz, Alfonso, 1939-1997
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780140277715
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: PART ONE. COYOTE CREATES THE WORLD- AND A FEW OTHER THINGS. The beginning of the world (Yokuts); title: Sun and moon in a box (Zuni); title: Coyote steals the sun (Miwok); title: Origin of the moon and the sun (Kalispel); title: How people were made (Miwok); title: Coyote steals the summer (Crow); title: Coyote and Eagle visit the land of the dead (Yakima); title: Coyote steals fire (Klamath); title: Coyote kills terrible monster (Salish); title: The seven devils mountains (Nez Perce); title: PART TWO. UP TO NO GOOD. Coyote taunts the grizzly bear (Kutenai); title: How Locust tricked Coyote (Zuni); title: Coyote-giving (Paiute); title: Putting a saddle on Coyote's back (Northern Pueblo); title: A satisfying meal (Hopi); title: A strong heart (Arikara); title: Better luck next time (Hopi); title: Long ears outsmarts Coyote (Pueblo); title: Old man Coyote and the buffalo (Crow); title: Coyote and Bobcat have their faces done (Ute); title: The adventures of a meatball (Comanche); title: Coyote gets stuck (Shasta); title: Anything but piñon pitch! (Navajo); title: Fat , grease, and berries (Crow); title: Don't be too curious (Lakota); title: PART THREE. COYOTE'S AMOROUS ADVENTURES. Coyote's amorous adventures (Shasta); title: Two rascals and their wives (Pueblo); title: Coyote sleeps with his own daughters (Southern Ute); title: Old man Coyote meets Coyote woman (Blackfoot); title: Coyote and Fox dress up (Nez Perce); title: Coyote and the girls (Karok and Yurok); title: Coyote keeps his dead wife's genitals (Lipan Apache); title: The toothed vagina (Yurok); title: Something fishy going on (Athapascan); title: Where do babies come from? (Karuk); title: Winyan-shan upside down (Sioux); title: PART FOUR. THE TROUBLE WITH ROSE HIPS. Coyote, Skunk, and the beavers (Wichita); title: Monster skunk farting everyone to death (Cree); title: Coyote sells a burro that defecates money (Lipan Apache); title: Coyote the credulous (Taos); title: The trouble with rose hips (Lipan apache); title: PART FIVE. IKTOMI THE SPIDER MAN. Seven toes (Assiniboine); title: Tricking the trickster (Sioux); title: Iktomi and the man-eating monster (Lakota); title: Iktomi, Flint boy, and the grizzly (Lakota); title: Iktomi and the buffalo calf (Assiniboine); title: Ikto's grandchild defeats Siyoko (Rosebud Sioux); title: The cheater cheated (Lakota); title: The spider cries "wolf" (Rosebud Sioux); title: Tit for tat (Omaha); title: Iktomi takes back a gift (Rosebud Sioux); title: Iktomi and the wild ducks (Minneconjou Sioux); title: Iktomi trying to outrace Beaver (Santee); title: Too smart for his own good (Sioux); title: PART SIX. SPIDER-MAN IN LOVE. Oh, it's you! (Lakota); title: Too many women (Lakota); title: Forbidden fruit (Lakota and Rosebud Sioux); title: The spiders give birth to the people (Arikara); title: The winkte way (Omaha); title: PART SEVEN. THE VEEHO CYCLE. He has been saying bad things about you (Northern Cheyenne); title: The possible bag (Northern Cheyenne); title: Hair loss (Northern Cheyenne); title: Brother, sharpen my leg! (Cheyenne); title: Veeho has his back scraped (Northern Cheyenne); title: He sure was a good shot (Cheyenne); title: The only man around (Northern Cheyenne); title: PART EIGHT. THE NIXANT AND SITCONSKI CYCLES. When the people were wild (Gros Ventre); title: The talking penis (Gros Ventre); title: Hairy legs (Gros Ventre); title: Sitconski and the buffalo skull (Assiniboine); title: She refused to have him (Assiniboine); title: Ni'hancan and Whirlwind woman (Arapaho); title: Ni'hancan and the race for wives (Arapaho); title: PART NINE. MAGICAL MASTER RABBIT. Little rabbit fights the sun (Ute); title: The long black stranger (Omaha); title: Why the possum's tail is bare (Cherokee); title: Rabbit escapes from the box (Creek); title: Rabbit and Possum on the prowl (Cherokee); title: Tar baby (Biloxi); title: Don't believe what people tell you (San Ildefonso and San Juan); title: PART TEN. NANABOZHO AND WHISKEY JACK. Nanabozho and the fish chief (Great Lakes tribes); title: Why we have to work so hard making maple sugar (Menomini); title: Who is looking me in the face? (Menomini); title: Why women have their moon-time (Menomini); title: Whiskey Jack wants to fly (Cree and Metis); title: Wesakaychak, the windigo, and the ermine (Cree and Metis); title: PART ELEVEN. OLD MAN NAPI CHOOSES A WIFE. Choosing mates (Blackfoot); title: Napi races Coyote for a meal (Blackfoot); title: Magic Leggings (Blackfoot); title: PART TWELVE. GLOOSKAP THE GREAT. How the lord of men and beasts strove with the mighty Wasis and was shamefully defeated (Penobscot); title: Glooskap turns men into rattlesnakes (Passamaquoddy); title: Kuloskap and the ice-giants (Passamaquoddy); title: Questions, questions (Passamaquoddy); title: A new way to travel (Micmac); title: Glooskap grants four wishes (Micmac); title: A puff of his pipe (Micmac); title: PART THIRTEEN. SKELETON MAN. While the gods snored (Hopi); title: How Masaaw slept with a beautiful maiden (Hopi); title: Scared to death (Hopi); title: PART FOURTEEN. RAVEN LIGHTS THE WORLD. Hungry for clams (Hoh and Quileute); title: Give it back! Give it back! (Haida); title: Raven steals the moon (Haida); title: Yehl, the lazy one (Haida); title: Raven and his slave (Tsimshian); title: A lousy fisherman (Haida); title: Raven lights the world (Tlingit); title: Appendix; title: Sources; title: Index of tales.