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Showing posts with label Native American Units. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native American Units. Show all posts

Myth-Folklore Unit: California and the Old Southwest

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Overview .  The readings for this unit come from Judson's Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest . You will read myths an...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Great Plains

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Overview . About half of the stories in this selection from Judson's  Myths and Legends of the Great Plains  come from the Omaha people,...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes

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Overview . This unit contains stories from Judson's anthology of  Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes . The ...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Alaskan Legends

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Overview . If you want to learn about the many myths and legends about Raven, one of the great trickster-creators of world mythology, this c...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Pacific Northwest

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Overview . As the title of Judson's book explains, there are  Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and O...

Myth-Folklore Unit: British North America

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Overview . This selection of legends told by First Nations people of Canada is drawn from Judson's  Myths and Legends of British North A...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Native American Marriage Tales

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Overview . Stith Thompson's anthology,  Tales of the North American Indians , was a pioneering work in comparative studies of Native Ame...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Native American Hero Tales

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Overview . Stith Thompson's anthology,  Tales of the North American Indians , was a pioneering work in comparative studies of Native Ame...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Blackfoot Stories

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Overview . In these tales from Grinnell's  Blackfeet Indian Stories , you will read about the epic adventures of Kut-O-Yis, a divine ave...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Apache Tales

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Overview . These stories from Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico, collected and translated by P. E. Goddard , feature many tales of Coyote, who ...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Sioux Legends

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Overview . The legends in this unit come from books by two Sioux authors, both women, writing in the early years of the 20th century: Marie ...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Myths of the Cherokee

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Overview . In these stories from  Myths of the Cherokee  by James Mooney you will meet Rabbit, a sly and dangerous trickster, and also Terra...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Tejas Legends

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Overview . These stories from  When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends  were collected in Texas in the early years of the 2...

Myth-Folklore Unit: Eskimo Folk Tales

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Overview . These Canadian Inuit stories were recorded by the polar explorer Knud Rasmussen (whose mother was Inuit) in the early years of th...

Myth-Folklore Unit: The Song of Hiawatha

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Overview . This unit contains the first half of  The Song of Hiawatha , an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that was published in 185...

Myth-Folklore Unit: American Indian Fairy Tales

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Overview . This children's book -  American Indian Fairy Tales   - contains stories inspired by the Ojibwa and other Native American leg...