Cheyenne Indians Legends
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Anthony Horowitz’ Legends Series
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American Indian Trickster Tales (Myths and Legends) $7.40 Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it’s the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American In… |
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By Cheyenne Campfires (Bison Book) $13.20 Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne–stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers–as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis. “Of all the books written about Indians,” say Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Benzel in The Golden Age of American Anthropology, “none comes closer to their everyday life than Grinnell’s classic monograph o… |
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The Great Race of the Birds and Animals $3.00 Long ago, when the world was still quite new, buffaloes used to eat people. It is true? The hair on their chins is hair of the people they use to eat…It is Terrible to think about those times… But the Creator saw the people’s distress and decreed that a contest be held between all the two-legged and four-legged creatures. Who would win, thundering Buffalo or fleet-footed Man? None of the other… |
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