“Be careful where you look, or you may lose the very beauty you seek to show off.” In this ancient teaching story, we learn...
Legends & Stories
“Behold me, for in a sacred manner I am walking.” Long before the reservation era, the White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared to the Sioux...
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...
Dismantle the secular future-modeling and face the prophetic milestones of Stalking Wolf. This dossier scrutinizes “Grandfather’s Visions“—exposing how 99 out of 104 prophecies have...
Dismantle the materialist biological narrative and face the technical reality of allegorical instruction. This dossier scrutinizes “How Possum Got His Skinny Tail“—exposing how Rabbit...
