The bear knife, and other American Indian tales
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The bear knife, and other American Indian tales
Bramble Books, c1994
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Contents of Works
- Tales of the beginning: Creation story (Sedonia Cahill)
- How the world came into being (Iroquois)
- The first fire (Iroquois)
- Origin of the peace pipe (Omaha)
- Origin of the thunder pipe (Blackfoot)
- Origin of the bear spear (Blackfoot)
- Origin of the beaver bundle (Arikara)
- First medicine wheel (Jan Ogren as told by the circle of grandmother and grandfather story tellers)
- Origin of the strawberries (Iroquois)
- Origin of corn (Arikara)
- Tales of great men and women: Is'tu-un, the knife (Blackfoot/Adolf Spohr)
- Scarface or the first sweat lodge (Lewis E. Mehl)
- Big sister's sacrifice or how the Milky Way came into being (Lewis E. Mehl)
- Smoking-star I (Blackfoor)
- Smoking-star II (Blackfoot)
- Seven stars of the Big Dipper (Blackfoot)
- Falling-star (Dakota)
- Ghost tales: Buffalo spirit (Teton)
- Eagle's revenge (Iroquois)
- Birds omen (Dakota)
- Cross Bull and the ghost (Blackfoot)
- Cross-roads (Omaha)
- Singing ghost (Ponca)
- Man who shot a ghost (Teton)
- Man who wrestled a ghost (Teton)
- Ghost's revenge (Dakota)
- Fables: Old-woman-who-never-dies (Mandan)
- Old man and the squirrels (Blackfoot)
- Chief of the birds (Omaha)
- Buffalo Bill and the grizzly bear (Omaha)
- Race between hummingbird and crane (Iroquois)
- Why peasants pound the corn (Iroquois)
- Why turkeys gobble (Iroquois)
- Ikto and the snow storm (Teton)
- Ikto and the turtle (Teton)
- Ictinike and the turtle (Omaha)
- Ictinike and the creators (Omaha)
- Coyote and grey fox (Ponca)
- How hare escaped the wolves (Iroquois)
- How hare lost his fat (Omaha)
- How flint visited hare (Iroquois)
- How hare caught the sun in a trap (Omaha)
- Why stags have blunt teeth (Iroquois)
- Great-turtle on war path (Omaha)
- Tales from our time: A traditional story (Jurgen Kremer)
- Girl who wanted to know what it is like to be a butterfly (Jan Ogren)
- The singer (Sedonia Cahill, adapted from C.P. Estes' Women who run with the wolves)
- The village (Bird Brother)