American Indian Myths and Legends

American Indian Myths and LegendsThis magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent anthropologist, and Richard Erdoes, an artist and master storyteller, Indian voices in the best folkloric sources of the nineteenth century to make this

political outcries

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming

Three years later

humiliation

WHEREAS is an ambitious

Readers will be enriched by Erdrich’s finely crafted corrective to the Eurocentric dominant narrative of America’s past

states and counties curtail Native voting rights

compulsory religious instruction and practice

poems directly address non-Native readers and public consciousness

and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures

the bodies of indigenous

Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors