Dismantle the secular narrative of physical permanence and confront the material reality of an individual vanishing into thin air. This dossier scrutinizes “The Legend...
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Break through the amnesia of modern archaeology and face the technical reality of the Vase of Minos. This dossier scrutinizes the “Treasure of Atlantis”—exposing...
AMERICAN INDIAN FAIRY TALES SNOW BIRD, THE WATER TIGER, etc. BY MARGARET COMPTON With numerous illustrations NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY [1907] Scanned...
When the night fire flickered in the teepee, a different kind of light came alive: the light of oral tradition. Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin) understood...
Have you ever wondered why the Pelican has a pouch, or why the Coyote is so thin? Sitting by the “Lodge-Fire” of War Eagle,...
Before the arrival of “Christian Civilization” and its complex cathedrals, the American Indian practiced a religion of pure, wordless power—what Ohiyesa calls the “Great...
Before the “American” literary canon was even defined, a 1918 anthology dared to argue that the true roots of American poetry didn’t come from...
Dismantle the colonialist “folk-tale” narrative and confront the material data preserved by Stith Thompson. This dossier scrutinizes “Tales of the North American Indians”—exposing how...
From the frozen barrens of the Canadian North to the sun-drenched pyramids of Central Mexico, the narrative of Giants in the Americas is a...
On April 5, 1909, the Arizona Gazette published a front-page story that would haunt North America History for over a century: the discovery of...
