An Osage Legend What is the meaning of life? Why is it that people grow old and die? Although he was young, those questions troubled the mind of Little One. He asked the elders about them, but their answers did not satisfy him. At last he knew there was only one thing to do. He [...]
Genealogy & Story Telling
31
Aug
A Crow Legend Once upon a time there lived a couple, the woman being pregnant. The man went hunting one day, and in his absence a certain wicked woman named Red-Woman came to the tipi and killed his wife and cut her open and found boy twins. She threw one behind the tipi curtain, and [...]
31
Aug
A Paiute Legend Along time ago, Coyote wanted to go to the sun. He asked Pokoh, Old Man, to show him the trail. Coyote went straight out on this trail and he traveled it all day. But Sun went round so that Coyote came back at night to the place from which he started in [...]
26
Aug
A Cherokee Legend In the Beginning of the Cherokee World In the beginning, there were two worlds: The heavenly world called ga-lun-la-ti, which was placed high in the heavens, and the lower, dark world where the forces of evil lived. Ga-lun-la-ti was populated with beings in animal, human and plant forms. All creatures spoke the [...]
Tags: blackberries, bloodroot, cedar, gooseberries, muskrats, sage, service berries, Strawberry, Tobacco, Tree of Life, Turtle Island
26
Aug
A Caddo Legend The favor of the Great Spirit rested on the abundant forest, flowers, songbirds, and small animals of these quiet hills. Then a fierce dragon devastated the land, bringing disease and hunger on the people. The Indian Nations pleaded with the Great Spirit to subdue the dragon, and the might of all the [...]
Tags: Caddo, dragon, Great Spirit
26
Aug
A Hopi Legend A long time ago, in a happy Hopi village, there lived a little boy. His mother loved him so much that she dressed him in a pretty shirt and embroidered moccasins. One day the boy wandered away from the village, over the plain, and a band of fierce Navaho Indians swooped down [...]
26
Aug
A Haida Legend Once a man found two wolf pups on the beach, he took them to his home and raised them. When the pups had grown, they would swim out in to the ocean, kill a whale, and bring it to shore for the man to eat. Each day they did this, soon there [...]
Tags: Orca
26
Aug
A Micmac Legend In old times, Master Rabbit lived with his grandmother in a comfortable little wigwam. In Summer it was easy for him to get food, but when Winter came and the ice was thick on the river, and the snow was deep on the plain, he and his grandmother often went hungry. One [...]
9
Aug
A Wasco Legend One time there were five wolves, all brothers, who traveled together. Whatever meat they got when they were hunting they would share with Coyote. One evening Coyote saw the wolves looking up at the sky. “What are you looking at up there, my brothers?” asked Coyote. “Oh, nothing,” said the oldest wolf. [...]
Tags: bear, Big Dipper, coyote, grizzly, Wasco
9
Aug
A Cherokee Legend The Wildcat once caught the Rabbit and was about to kill him, when the Rabbit begged for his life, saying: “I’m so small I would make only a mouthful for you, but if you let me go I’ll show you where you can get a whole drove of Turkeys.” So the Wildcat [...]
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