Native American Storytelling

Karl Kroeber is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His previous publications include Ishi in Three Centuries (ed. 2003), Artistry in American Indian Myths (1998), and Ecological Literary Criticism (1994). He is Editor Emeritus of Studies in American Indian Literature.

• List of Figures. To The Reader.Tewa.1. “Where They Were Living Lived Laughing Warrior Girl. . . ”.Kalispell.2. “A Young Man (Rabbit) Lived With His Grandmother. One Day He Pitied Her. . .”.Kathlamet.3. “There Was A Chief Of A Town. His Relatives Live In Five Towns".Tillamook.4. “Wild Woman Was Living Alone. Her Husband, High Class Crane, . . .”.Sioux.5. “A Man Lived With His Two Wives And A Brother. One Day The Brother. . .”..Origins.Cherokee (A).6. “In The Beginning There Was No Fire, And The World Was Cold, Until. . .”.Gros Ventre.7. “The People Before The Present People Were Wild. They Did Not Know. . .”.Cherokee (B).8. “When I Was A Boy This Is What The Old Men Told Me They Had Heard. . .”.Seneca (A).9. “A Long Time Ago Human Beings Lived High Up In What Is Now Called. . .”..Seneca (B).10. “There Was A Lodge In The Forest Where Few People Ever Came. . .”.Eskimo.11. “Two Men Were Trappers. One Of Them Kept Catching A Lot Of Ground Hogs; . . .”.Cherokee (C).12. “Once When All The People Of The Settlement Were Out . . .”..Trickster.Three Chinook-Wishram Coyote Tales.13. “Coyote Heard About Two Women Who Had Fish. . .”.14. “A Certain Old Man Was Sitting In The Trail With His Penis. . .”.15. “Again Coyote Travelled Up The River. In The Water He Saw. . .”.Clackamas (A).16. “Coyote And His Five Children Lived There, Four Males, . . .”..Clackamas (B).17. “They Lived There, Seal, Her Daughter, And Seal’s Younger Brother. . . .”.Hopi.18. “In Oraibi The People Were Living. At The West End Of The South Row. . .”.Wintu.19. “Long Ago There Came Into Being Some People Who Had Four Children,. . . ”.Yana.20. “‘ Now Dig For Roots. The Nuts Are Already Ripe – Let’s Climb. . .’”.Navajo--Mountain Chant Myth.21. “On The Morrow, When He Went Forth On His Hunt, His Father. . .”.Blackfoot.22. “‘There Are Two Bright Stars,’ Brings-Down-The-Sun Said, ‘That Sometimes. . .’.Onondaga.23. “Tall, Fierce, And Hostile, They Were A Powerful Tribe, The Stone Giants!”.Further Reading.Index