This auction is for a CD containing 53 Rare and Fascinating Historic books detailing Native Ameriycan Religions and Mythologies.

Below is a breakdown of the books and their contents by region. The book titles are bolded and the contents are in the bullet points below each book. All books are complete - including any illustrations that were in the original hardcopy books. In many cases, we list the chapters in the books but we also list many books just by title and publication date in an effort to keep the ad a reasonable size. If you have a question about the contents of any book, please ask us.

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General

Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson 1929

• Chapter I: Mythological Stories
• Chapter II: Mythical Incidents
• Chapter III: Trickster Tales
• Chapter IV: Hero Tales
• Chapter V: Journeys to the Other World
• Chapter VI: Animal Wives and Husbands
• Chapter VII: Miscellaneous Tales
• Chapter VIII: Tales Borrowed From Europeans
• Chapter IX: Bible Stories

Walam Olum excerpt from The Len p and Their Legends, by Samuel G. Brinton. Brinton's Library of Aboriginal Literature number V. Phildelphia 1885 .

The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman 1911

• I. THE GREAT MYSTERY
• II. THE FAMILY ALTAR
• III. CEREMONIAL AND SYMBOLIC WORSHIP
• IV. BARBARISM AND THE MORAL CODE
• V. THE UNWRITTEN SCRIPTURES
• VI. ON THE BORDER-LAND OF SPIRITS

Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman 1915

• WHY THE CHIPMUNK'S BACK IS STRIPED
• HOW THE DUCKS GOT THEIR FINE FEATHERS
• WHY THE KINGFISHER ALWAYS WEARS A WAR-BONNET
• WHY THE CURLEW S BILL IS LONG AND CROOKED
• OLD-MAN REMARKS THE WORLD
• WHY BLACKFEET NEVER KILL MICE
• HOW THE OTTER SKIN BECAME GREAT "MEDICINE"
• OLD-MAN STEALS THE SUN'S LEGGINGS
• OLD-MAN AND HIS CONSCIENCE
• OLD-MAN'S TREACHERY
• WHY THE NIGHT-HAWK'S WINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL
• WHY THE MOUNTAIN-LION IS LONG AND LEAN
• THE FIRE-LEGGINGS
• THE MOON AND THE GREAT SNAKE
• WHY THE DEER HAS NO GALL
• WHY INDIANS WHIP THE BUFFALO-BERRIES FROM THE BUSHES
• OLD-MAN AND THE FOX
• WHY THE BIRCH-TREE WEARS THE SLASHES IN ITS BARK
• MISTAKES OF OLD-MAN
• HOW THE MAN FOUND HIS MATE
• DREAMS
• RETROSPECTION

Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa 1901

• IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS
• IKTOMI'S BLANKET
• IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT
• IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE
• IKTOMI AND THE FAWN
• THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
• THE TREE-BOUND
• SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE
• IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE
• DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL
• THE TOAD AND THE BOY
• IYA, THE CAMP-EATER
• MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
• THE WARLIKE SEVEN

Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin 1916

• The Forgotten Ear of Corn
• The Little Mice
• The Pet Rabbit
• The Pet Donkey
• The Rabbit and the Elk
• The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
• The Faithful Lovers
• The Artichoke and the Muskrat
• The Rabbit, and the Bear with the Flint Body
• Story of the Lost Wife
• The Raccoon and the Crawfish
• Legend of Standing Rock
• Story of the Peace Pipe
• A Bashful Courtship
• The Simpleton's Wisdom
• Little Brave and the Medicine Woman
• The Bound Children
• The Signs of Corn
• Story of the Rabbits
• How the Rabbit Lost His Tail
• Unktomi and the Arrowheads
• The Bear and the Rabbit Hunt Buffalo
• The Brave Who Went on the Warpath Alone and Won the Name of the Lone Warrior
• The Sioux Who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter
• The Boy and the Turtles
• The Hermit, or the Gift of Corn
• The Mysterious ButteThe Wonderful Turtle
• The Man and the Oak
• Story of the Two Young Friends
• The Story of the Pet Crow
• The "Wasna" (Pemmican Man) and the Unktomi (Spider)
• The Resuscitation of the Only Daughter
• The Story of the Pet Crane
• White Plume
• Story of Pretty Feathered Forehead
• The Four Brothers or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy)
• The Unktomi (Spider), Two Widows and the Red Plums

Californian Indians

Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber. University of California Publications in American Ethnography and Ethnology (UCPAAE) Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 319-356. 1907

• Customary Observances by Individuals
• Shamanism
• Public Ceremonies
• Ceremonial Structures and Paraphernalia
• Mythology and Beliefs
• Special Characteristics of Different Tribes

Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Compiled and edited by Katherine Berry Judson. 1912

• The Beginning of Newness - Zuni (New Mexico)
• The Men of the Early Times - Zuni (New Mexico)
• Creation and Longevity - Achomawi (Pit River, Cal.)
• Old Moles Creation - Shastika (Cal.)
• The Creation of the World - Pima (Arizona)
• Spider's Creation - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Gods and the Six Regions
• How Old Man Above Created the World - Shastika (Cal.)
• The Search for the Middle and the Hardening of the World - Zuni (New Mexico)
• Origin of Light - Gallinomero (Russian River, Cal.)
• Pokoh, the Old Man - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
• Thunder and Lightning - Maidu (near Sacramento Valley. Cal.)
• Creation of Man - Miwok (San Joaquin Valley, Cal.)
• The First Man and Woman - Nishinam (near Bear River, Cal.)
• Old Man Above and the Grizzlies - Shastika (Cal.)
• The Creation of Man-kind and the Flood - Pima (Arizona)
• The Birds and the Flood - Pima (Arizona)
• Legend of the Flood - Ashochimi (Coast Indians, Cal.)
• The Great Flood - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Flood and the Theft of Fire - Tolowa (Del Norte Co., Cal.)
• Legend of the Flood in Sacramento Maidu Valley - (near Sacramento, Cal.)
• The Fable of the Animals - Karok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
• Coyote and Sun - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
• The Course of the Sun - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Foxes and the Sun - Yurok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
• The Theft of Fire - Karok (near Klamath River, Cal.)
• The Theft of Fire - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Earth-hardening after the Flood - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Origins of the Totems and of Names - Zuni (New Mexico)
• Traditions of Wanderings - Hopi (Arizona)
• The Migration of the Water People - Walpi (Arizona)
• Coyote and the Mesquite Beans - Pima (Arizona)
• Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range - Yokuts (near Fresno, Cal.)
• Yosemite Valley and its Indian Names
• Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu'-la (El Capitan) - Yosemite Valley
• Legend of Tis-se'-yak (South Dome and North Dome) Yosemite Valley
• Historic Tradition of the Upper Tuolumne - Yosemite Valley
• California Big Trees - Pai Ute (near Kern River, Cal.)
• The Children of Cloud - Pima (Arizona)
• The Cloud People - Sia (New Mexico)
• Rain Song - Sia (New Mexico)
• Rain Song
• Rain Song - Sia (New Mexico)
• The Corn Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico)
• The Search for the Corn Maidens - Zuni (New Mexico)
• Hasjelti and Hostjoghon - Navajo (New Mexico)
• The Song-hunter - Navajo (New Mexico)
• Sand Painting of the Song-hunter - Navajo
• The Guiding Duck and the Lake of Death - Zuni (New Mexico)
• The Boy who Became a God - Navajo (New Mexico)
• Origin of Clear Lake - Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.)
• The Great Fire - Patwin (Sacramento Valley, Cal.)
• Origin of the Raven and the Macaw - Zuni (New Mexico)
• Coyote and the Hare - Sia (New Mexico)
• Coyote and the Quails - Pima (Arizona)
• Coyote and the Fawns - Sia (New Mexico)
• How the Bluebird Got its Color - Pima (Arizona)
• Coyote's Eyes - Pima (Arizona)
• Coyote and the Tortillas - Pima (Arizona)
• Coyote as a Hunter - Sia (New Mexico)
• How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite - Pima (Arizona)
• Coyote and the Rattlesnake - Sia (New Mexico)
• Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti - Pima (Arizona)
• The Thirsty Quails - Pima (Arizona)
• The Boy and the Beast - Pima (Arizona)
• Why the Apaches are Fierce - Pima (Arizona)
• Speech on the Warpath - Pima (Arizona)
• The Spirit Land - Gallinomero (Russian River, Cal.)
• Song of the Ghost Dance - Pai Ute (Kern River, Cal.)

Additional books for the Californian Indians

Indian Myths Of South Central California. By A. L. Kroeber. UCPAAE Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 167-250. 1907 .

Myths of the Miwok By Edward Winslow Gifford. UCPAAE Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 283-338. 1917

The Dawn of the World Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Miwok Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam 1910

Maidu Texts by Roland B. Dixon, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, vol. IV 1912

Hupa Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. UCPAAE Vol. 1 No. 2 1904

Yana Texts by Edward Sapir UCPAAE Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-235. 1910

Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales and Achomawi Myths by Roland B. Dixon JAFL Vol. 22, no. 81, pp. 159-77 1908 and JAFL Vol. 23, no. 85, pp. 283-7 1909 .

Chinigchinich by Friar Geronimo Boscana; tr. by Alfred Robinson; 1846

The Mythology of the Diege os by Constance Goddard Du Bois, The Journal of American Folk-Lore (JAFL) Vol. XIV, No. 54, pp. 181-5 1901

A Saboba Origin-Myth by George Wharton James; JAFL Vol. XV, No. 61, pp. 36-9 1902

The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton James; JAFL Vol. XVI, No. 62, pp. 153-9 1903

The Story of the Chaup; A Myth of the Diegue os by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 67 pp. 217-42 1904

Mythology of the Mission Indians by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 66. p.. 185-8 1904 ; Vol. XIX. No. 72 pp. 52-60 and 73. pp. 145-64. 1906 .

Two Myths of the Mission Indians by A. L. Kroeber; JAFL Vol. XIX, No. 75 pp. 309-21 1906

Ceremonies and Traditions of the Diegue o Indians by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL XXI, No. 82 pp. 228-36 1908 .

Inuit

Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henry Rink 1875

Eskimo Folk-tales collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster 1921

• THE TWO FRIENDS WHO SET OFF TO TRAVEL ROUND THE WORLD
• THE COMING OF MEN, A LONG, LONG WHILE AGO
• NUK NGUASIK, WHO ESCAPED FROM THE TUPILAK
• QUJ V RSSUK
• K NIGSEQ
• THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BEAR AS A FOSTER-SON
• MARASUGSSUAQ, WHO ATE HIS WIVES
• QALAG NGUAS , WHO PASSED TO THE LAND OF GHOSTS
• ISIG LIG RSSIK
• THE INSECTS THAT WOOED A WIFELESS MAN
• THE VERY OBSTINATE MAN
• THE DWARFS
• THE BOY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, WHO FRIGHTENED THE PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE TO DEATH
• THE RAVEN AND THE GOOSE
• WHEN THE RAVENS COULD SPEAK
• MAK TE
• ASAL Q
• UKALEQ
• KARDL TUARSSUK
• THE RAVEN WHO WANTED A WIFE
• THE MAN WHO TOOK A VIXEN TO WIFE
• THE GREAT BEAR
• THE MAN WHO BECAME A STAR
• THE WOMAN WITH THE IRON TAIL
• HOW THE FOG CAME
• THE MAN WHO AVENGED THE WIDOWS
• THE MAN WHO WENT OUT TO SEARCH FOR HIS SON
• ATUNGAIT, WHO WENT A-WANDERING
• KUMAGDLAK AND THE LIVING ARROWS
• THE GIANT DOG
• THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH
• THE MAN WHO STABBED HIS WIFE IN THE LEG
• THE SOUL THAT LIVED IN THE BODIES OF ALL BEASTS
• PAPIK, WHO KILLED HIS WIFE'S BROTHER
• P TUSSORSSUAQ, WHO KILLED HIS UNCLE
• THE MEN WHO CHANGED WIVES
• ARTUK, WHO DID ALL FORBIDDEN THINGS
• THE THUNDER SPIRITS
• NERRIVIK
• THE WIFE WHO LIED
• K GSSAGSSUK, THE HOMELESS BOY WHO BECAME A STRONG MAN
• QASIAGSSAQ, THE GREAT LIAR
• THE EAGLE AND THE WHALE
• THE TWO LITTLE OUTCASTS
• ATDLARNEQ, THE GREAT GLUTTON
• NG NGUJUK
• T RSSUAQ
• PUAGSSUAQ
• TUNGUJULUK AND SAUNIKOQ
• ANARTEQ
• THE GUILLEMOT THAT COULD TALK
• K NAGSSUAQ

Plains Indians

Jicarilla Apache Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. 1911 (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII.)

The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota. by J. R. Walker. 1917 (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XVI, Part II)

Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche 1889

Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa 1901

• IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS
• IKTOMI'S BLANKET
• IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT
• IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE
• IKTOMI AND THE FAWN
• THE BADGER AND THE BEAR
• THE TREE-BOUND
• SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE
• IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE
• DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL
• THE TOAD AND THE BOY
• IYA, THE CAMP-EATER
• MANSTIN, THE RABBIT
• THE WARLIKE SEVEN

Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin 1916