Trickster and transformer, powerful and vulnerable, Coyote is a complex figure in Indian legend. He was often the ultimate example of how not to be: foolish, proud, self-important. The tales in Old Man Coyote were told by the Crow Indians of present-day southeastern Montana. During long winter evenings by the lodge fire, they enjoyed hearing about the only warrior ever to visit the Bird Country, the Little-people who adopted a lost boy, the two-faced tribe that gambled for keeps, the marriage of Worm-face, and the origin of the buffalo. Wandering through these well-spun tales is the irrepressible Old Man Coyote, sometimes scoring a coup, sometimes getting his comeuppance.
- ISBN10 0803279647
- ISBN13 9780803279643
- Publish Date 1 October 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Imprint Bison Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 254
- Language English