The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family-these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths and Legends of the Sioux. Marie L. McLaughlin, born to a white father and a mixed-blood Sioux mother, heard these stories while growing up among the eastern Sioux of Minnesota. When she recorded them for posterity in 1916 she had long been the wife of James McLaughlin, whom she served as interpreter during the years he was head of the Devils Lake and Standing Rock agencies and an inspector for...
The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family-these...
Myths and Legends of the Sioux was edited by Marie L McLaughlin who was one quarter Sioux. McLaughlin spent her childhood living in an Indian community and after her marriage to an Indian agent she lived on several reservations. She spoke the Sioux language fluently and spent much time hearing and writing down the myths of these people. The myths will give insight into the mentality of the Sioux race and will also delight any child who hears the stories.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux was edited by Marie L McLaughlin who was one quarter Sioux. McLaughlin spent her childhood living in an Indian communit...
Oral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. Not only have they been - and continue to be - an essential part of handing down Native American customs, norms, beliefs, and cultural histories, but they also form a communal mythic discourse. This discourse is not a "fixed text," but rather a dynamic process of interactive relations that are developed over generations of experience, and passed from relation to relation and generation to generation. In this sense, the traditional structures of mythic discourse serve an integrative function: to form a...
Oral traditions and myths have long been an integral part of Native American cosmology. Not only have they been - and continue to be - an essential pa...
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out o...
