Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the...
Like all First Nations languages, Lillooet (Lil'wat) is a repository for an abundantly rich oral literature. In These Are Our Legends, the fifth volume of the First Nations Language Readers series, the reader will discover seven traditional Lillooet sptakwlh (variously translated into English as "legends," "myths," or "bed-time stories." These texts are presented in a technical transcription that can be used by linguists, and also in a practical orthography that can be used by Lillooet speakers...
Published in 1902, A Daughter of the Sioux is a classic tale of the Old West and the demise of the Indian.
Mythen Und Legenden Des Bolivianischen Amazonas (Mythen Und Legenden in Der Bolivianischen Literatur, #3)
by Marcial Villarroel Siles
Seonee or Camp Life on the Satpura Range
by Robert Armitage Sterndale
The Indian Borderland, 1880-1900 (Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History)
by Thomas Hungerford Holdich
An English geographer of great distinction, Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1843-1929) is best remembered as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India. He served on a number of boundary commissions including the one on Afghanistan that settled the country's border with British India in 1884-6. He was also invited by the governments of Argentina and Chile in 1892 to define their boundary along the Andes Mountains. Holdich wrote and lectured extensively on geographical issues in the later...
Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures of Captain Samuel Brady (1891)
by Blairsville Record
Miti E Leggende Delle Valli Boliviane (Miti E Leggende Nella Letteratura Boliviana, #2)
by Marcial Villarroel Siles
Whitman's Ride Through Savage Lands with Sketches of Indian Life
by O W Nixon
Miti E Leggende Dell'amazzonia Boliviana (Miti E Leggende Nella Letteratura Boliviana, #3)
by Marcial Villarroel Siles
