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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-100803260237

ISBN-139780803260238

eBay Product ID (ePID)60060331

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleMythology of the Blackfoot Indians

Number of Pages204 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore & Mythology, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies

FeaturesNew Edition

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Social Science

AuthorClark Wissler

Book SeriesSources of American Indian Oral Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width7.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-027615

Dewey Edition22

Compiled byWissler, Clark

Dewey Decimal299.72

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Table Of ContentIntroduction to the New Bison Books Edition by Darrell Kipp Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Alice Beck Kehoe Introduction by Clark Wissler I. Tales of the Old Man 1. The Making of the Earth 2. Languages confused on a Mountain 3. Order of Life and Death 4. Why People die Forever 5. The First Marriage 6. Old Man leads a Migration 7. Old Man and the Great Spirit 8. Old Man gambles 9. Old Man and the Rolling Stone 10. Old Man roasts Squirrels in Hot Ashes 11. Old Man makes a Drive, and loses Meat in a Race 12. Old Man sees Berries in the Water 13. Old Man loses his Eyes 14. Old Man and the Fire-Leggings 15. Old Man frightens a Bear 16. Old Man gets fast in an Elk-Skull, and loses his Hair 17. Old Man cooks Two Babies 18. Old Man''s Escape 19. Old Man deceived by Two Women 20. Old Man sees Girls picking Strawberries 21. Old Man penem trans flumen mittit 22. Old Man makes Buffalo laugh 23. Adventures of Old Man II. Star Myths 1. The Twin-Brothers, or Stars 2. Blood-Clot, or Smoking-Star 3. The Fixed-Star 4. Scar-Face a) Version by a Piegan Man b) Version by a Piegan Woman 5. Cuts-Wood 6. The Seven Stars 7. The Bunched Stars 8. The Moon-Woman III. Ritualistic Origins 1. The Beaver-Medicine a) Northern Blackfoot Version b) Blood Version c) North Piegan Version d) Piegan Version 2. Otter-Woman 3. Tobacco-Seeds and Beaver-Medicine 4. Crow Indian Water-Medicine 5. Scabby-Round-Robe 6. The Elk-Woman a) Blood Version b) Piegan Version 7. The Buffalo-Rock a) Piegan Version b) Northern Blackfoot Version 8. Origin of the Medicine-Pipe 9. The Worm-Pipe 10. A Pipe from the Seven Stars 11. The Black-Covered Pipe 12. The Otter-Lodge 13. The Bear-Lodge 14. The Horse-Lodge 15. Black and Yellow Buffalo-Painted Lodges 16. The Crow-Painted Lodge 17. The Bear-Knife 18. The Smoking-Otter 19. The Medicine-Shields 20. Never-Sits-Down''s Shield 21. The Eagle-Head Charm 22. The Pigeons 23. The Mosquitoes 24. The Braves 25. Dog-Chief 26. Has-Scars-All-Over 27. Scabby-Bull 28. The Horns and the Matoki a) Blood Version b) North Piegan Version 29. The Kit-Fox 30. The Catchers 31. The Buffalo''s Adopted Child IV. Cultural and Other Origins 1. The Whirlwind-Boy 2. The Bladder Story 3. The Water-Bull 4. Red-Head 5. The Meeting in the Cave 6. Why Dogs do not Talk 7. Why Women are able to stick the Poles into the Holes of the Ears of the Lodge after Dark 8. Contest between the Thunder-Bird and the Raven 9. The Raven Rescues People 10. Why Grasshopper Spit 11. How Medicine-Hat got its Name V. Miscellaneous Tales 1. The Lost Children 2. The Woman who got Meat from the Cliff 3. Bear-Moccasin, the Great Medicine-Man 4. The Split Feather 5. The Treacherous Wives 6. The Woman who Married a Snake 7. The Woman who Married Filth 8. The Woman who Married a Horse 9. The Woman with a Sharpened Leg 10. The Woman without a Body 11. The Man Cut in two below the Waist 12. The Ghost-Woman 13. Fed by a Ghost 14. Fed by a Coyote 15. Riding the Buffalo 16. The Kutenai Black-Tail Deer-Dance 17. The Horned-Toad and the Frog 18. Turtle goes to War 19. The Warrior''s Dilemma 20. A Warrior''s Duty and his Love 21. The Wolverene-Woman 22. Seven-Heads 23. The Sand Hills Index

SynopsisMythology of the Blackfoot Indians , originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, as well as a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians. Narratives about Raven, Grasshopper, and Whirlwind-Boy account for conditions in humanity and nature. Many of the stories in the concluding group, such as "The Lost Children" and "The Ghost-Woman," were tales told to Blackfoot children. These narratives were collected early in the twentieth century from the Piegans in Montana and from the North Piegans, the Bloods, and the Northern Blackfoot in Canada. Most were translated by D. C. Duvall and revised for Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler. Darrell Kipp provides an introduction to the new Bison Books edition., "Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians," originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included are tales with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the roles played by Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, as well as a presentation of Star Myths, which reveal the astronomical knowledge of the Blackfoot Indians. Narratives about Raven, Grasshopper, and Whirlwind-Boy account for conditions in humanity and nature. Many of the stories in the concluding group, such as "The Lost Children" and "The Ghost-Woman," were tales told to Blackfoot children. These narratives were collected early in the twentieth century from the Piegans in Montana and from the North Piegans, the Bloods, and the Northern Blackfoot in Canada. Most were translated by D. C. Duvall and revised for "Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians" by Clark Wissler. Darrell Kipp provides an introduction to the new Bison Books edition.

LC Classification NumberE99.S54W525 2008