A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends (42 page)

dances, ritual
59
,
63
,
64–5
,
118–20
,
129–30
,
183
,
224–5
,
228
,
235
,
280–1

Day of the Council of the Fetishes
31

death and resurrection
58–60
,
182–4

deer
18
,
57
,
66
,
69
,
120
,
141–2
,
173
,
184–5
,
210
,
219

devil-fish’s daughter, myth of the
252–3

Dogrib
6

dogs
4
,
7
,
9
,
11
,
59
,
90
,
115–16
,
118–19
,
134–5
,
168
,
190
,
209
,
220
,
258–9
,
263

eagles
44
,
118
,
120
,
192–3
,
227
,
229
,
273

Es-tonea-pesta
84
,
85

Eskimos
2
,
285–7

European colonialists
1
,
3
,
13
,
154

see also
missionaries

Evening Star human sacrifice
236
,
237–43

evil spirits
4
,
22
,
27
,
64
,
65
,
189–90
,
276

fairy wives, myth of the
100–5

False Face Society
189–90

Feather-woman and Morning Star, myth of
126–8

feathers
26
,
56
,
74
,
76
,
112
,
119
,
120
,
193
,
218
,
220
,
229
,
231–2
,
237
,
239
,
240
,
242
,
248

see also
birds

festivals, seasonal
62
,
63–5
,
190
,
237

see also
dances; sacrifices

fetishism
20
,
21
,
22
,
23–32

Fine-weather-woman
246–8

fishing and fishes
4
,
6
,
174
,
204
,
205–8
,
247
,
248
,
252
,
256–7
,
258
,
279
,
288
,
289

Five Nations of Iroquois
151
,
152
,
153–4
,
185
,
186–7

foxes
18
,
72–3

friendly skeleton, myth of the
167–70

frogs and toads
142–3
,
166–7
,
204
,
205

funerary rituals
58–9

Genetaska the Peace Queen
184–7

Ghost-land and ghosts
60
,
69
,
255–6

Giants and the White Feather, myth of
217–21

see also
Stone Giants

Gitksan tribe
15–16

Glooskap myths
75–83

Grand League of Iroquois
151
,
153–4

grave-goods
59

Great Basin
9–10
,
72

Great Bear
111–12
,
126

Great Beaver
76–7
,
114–15

Great Coyote People
31

Great Head
158–71

Great Lakes
13
,
45
,
46

Great Plains
8
,
10–11
,
187
,
224
,
236

Great Spirit
48
,
70–1
,
109
,
111
,
118
,
181
,
187
,
189–90
,
227–8
,
233
,
236

Great Sun complex, Cahokia
12

guardian spirits
33
,
46
,
68

Haida tribe
287
,
288

creation myth
288

myth of Sîñ and Fine-weather-woman
246–8

myth of the devil-fish’s daughter
252–3

myth of the Master-carpenter and the South-east Wind
248–50

myth of the Ten Brothers
244–6

Haokah
56

hares
see
Michabo, the great hare

health and healing
15
,
66–9
,
114–15
,
129–30
,
148
,
170–1
,
174
,
179–82
,
234

see also
medicine; medicine-men

herons
176
,
177

Hiawatha
145
,
150
,
152–3
,
154

Hidatsa tribe
27

Hi’nun, the Thunder-god
145
,
146–7

Hopi tribe
8
,
28
,
65
,
70

horses
9
,
10
,
11
,
28
,
196
,
198
,
216
,
217
,
224

human sacrifices
34
,
38
,
189
,
237–43

Huncpapa tribe
227

Hunin
71
,
142

Hupa tribe
63

Huron tribe
26–7
,
35
,
44
,
60
,
151
,
152
,
154
,
172

Ictinike
191–6

Illinois tribe
161–4

Inuits
6
,
285–7

Ioi and Blue Jay myths
254–7

Iroquois Indians
12–13
,
15
,
35
,
46
,
60

Chief Atotarho
145–6
,
152–3

Chief Handsome Lake
190

creation myths
71
,
187–9

False Face Society
189–90

Five Nations
151
,
152
,
153–4
,
185
,
186–7

Grand League
151
,
153–4

Great Head, myth of
158–61

Great Spirt
181
,
187
,
189–90

Hiawatha
145
,
146
,
152–3
,
154
,
187

Hi’nun, the Thunder-god
145
,
146
,
147
,
150

myth of Genetaska the Peace Queen
184–6

myth of Sayadio in Spirit-land
182–4

myth of the boy magician
163–7

myth of the friendly skeleton
167–70

myth of the healing waters
179–82

myth of the magical serpent
172

myth of the Seneca’s revenge
161–3

myth of the Stone Giantess
177–9

myth of the Thunderers
147–50

myth of the wonderful kettle
174–7

myths of the pigmies
155–6
,
170–1

origins of Cherokee medicine myth
172–3

origins of Seneca medicine myth
157–8

origins of witches and witchcraft
156–7

Stone Giants
155–6
,
178–9

twin-gods
52–3
,
74
,
189

Katcina clan
65

Kayanerenh Kowa (Grand League of Iroquois)
151
,
153

kettle, myth of the wonderful
174–7

Kit Fox warrior society
11

Kodoyanpe
54–5

Kutenai tribe
55–6

Kutoyis, the story of
136–40

Lakota tribe
14–15
,
71
,
227

land ownership, tribal
5
,
13

languages
2
,
7
,
13
,
290

Algonquian
6
,
12
,
140–1

Athapascan
6
,
8
,
70
,
290

Hokan-Caddoan
236

Iroquois
12
,
46

medicine-men
66

Shoshone
9

Latelesharo, Chief
243

lightning
25–6
,
43–4
,
45
,
52
,
117

see also
Thunder-gods; Thunderers

Little Big Horn, Battle of (1876)
227

Long House People

see
Grand League of Iroquois

‘Long Person’
17

Loucheux tribe
282–3

Luther Standing Bear
5

magpies
256–7

Maidu tribe
54
,
63

maize farming
9
,
11–12
,
187
,
236

maize spirits
109–11
,
189

malicious mother-in-law, myth of the
105–9

Malsum
75–7
,
82–3

Manabozho
150–1

Mandan tribe
15
,
42–3
,
44
,
64–5
,
236

see also
Sioux

Manito/Manitou
35
,
39
,
45
,
47
,
107
,
108
,
180
,
181
,
182

marriage and totemism
20
,
37

Master-carpenter and the South-east Wind, myth of the
248–50

Master of Life
95–6

medicine
4
,
67

fetishes
26
,
27

myth of Sacred Otter and the snow-lodge
84
,
85

myth of the Bear-man
234

myth of the medicine wolf
120–1

myth of the sacred Bear-spear
117

origin of Beaver Medicine
113–15

origin of Cherokee
172–4

origin of Seneca
157–8

Prey-Gods
30–1

see also
health and healing; medicine-men

medicine-men/shamans
4
,
9
,
11
,
24
,
65–6
,
90–1
,
115
,
226
,
280

Eskimos
286–7

Haida myth
244–6

healing powers of
66–8
,
174

horn of the Prince of Serpents
45

journeys to the Spirit-land
68

mantle of invisibility
27

payment
67–8

Sitting Bull
227

Tinneh tribe
283–4

Wovoka
227–8

see also
dances; festivals, seasonal; sacrifices

Michabo, the Great Hare
41
,
51–2
,
150

missionaries
7
,
15
,
35
,
39
,
53
,
58
,
61

Mississippian culture
11–12
,
72

Mohawk tribe
53
,
152
,
153

Moon, the
52
,
62–3
,
127
,
128
,
129
,
132
,
134
,
236
,
282–3

Moowis the snow-man, myth of
92–3

Morning Star
11
,
125
,
126–8
,
129
,
130
,
134
,
236

human sacrice to
237–43

mounds and monuments
11
,
12

mountain lions
28
,
30
,
240
,
241

Muskhogean tribe
41–2
,
54

muskrats
69
,
143
,
188
,
195
,
204

Nakota tribe
224

Nanabozho
141–3

nantena
283

Nápi (Old Man)
71
,
72
,
130
,
132–6
,
143

Natchez
44

Navajo tribe
8
,
9
,
15
,
43
,
53
,
60
,
62
,
69–70
,
74

Nekumonta and the healing waters, myth of
179–82

Niparaya
281
,
282

North and North-West Indians

beliefs of the Acagchemem
277–8

beliefs of the Cahrocs
276–7

beliefs of the Californian tribes
275–82

beliefs of the Chipewyan tribe
290–1

beliefs of the Inuits
285–7

beliefs of the Loucheux
282–3

beliefs of the Ochones
277

beliefs of the
playanos
of San Juan Capistrano valley
279–81

beliefs of the Tinneh
283–4

beliefs of the tribes of Del Norte County
276

myth of Sîñ and Fine-weather-woman
246–8

myth of Stikŭa
269–75

myth of the Beaver and Porcupine
250–1

myth of the devil-fish’s daughter
252–3

myth of the Master-carpenter and the South-east Wind
248–50

myth of the Ten Brothers
244–6

myth of the Thunderer’s son-in-law
262–9

myths of Blue Jay
254–7
,
259–62
,
267–9
,
270–5