An Acoma Legend Blue Corn Maiden was the prettiest of the corn maiden sisters. The Pueblo People loved her very much, and loved the delicious blue corn that she gave them all year long. Not only was Blue Corn Maiden beautiful, but she also had a kind and gentle spirit. She brought peace and happiness [...]
Genealogy & Story Telling
15
Nov
A Comanche Legend Long ago two people owned all the buffalo. They were an old woman and her young cousin. They kept them penned up in the mountains, so that they could not get out. Coyote came to these people. He summoned the Indians to a council. “That old woman will not give us anything. [...]
15
Nov
A Cheyenne Legend Sun had beautiful, wonder-working leggings which could set the prairie on fire and drive the game toward the hunter’s bow. Veeho, the clever trickster, greatly admired them, and one day when he came to visit, he sneaked off with them when Sun was not looking. Chuckling, Veeho said to himself, “Now I [...]
12
Nov
Moose was standing drinking water and admiring his reflection in the water. ” Ah, it feels good to be the king of the forest it said to the reflection. Along came a bear humming to himself. “Dont you know that i am the king of the forrest” Bear said. ” Uh…. Well but i say [...]
12
Nov
A Seneca Legend In the mysterious days of long ago, when Ra-wen-io was fixing the earth so that mankind might have a happy place to live, all the trees had tongues and they talked. There was much to talk about, for terrible monsters roamed the world. None was so terrible as the stern warriors of [...]
Tags: Gwenny-Oyent, Hadui, Hatoe, Onetta, Ra-wen-io, Seneca, Tamarack
10
Nov
A Cherokee Legend When the Terrapin won the race from the Rabbit, all the animals wondered and talked about it a great deal, because they had always thought the Terrapin slow, although they knew that he was a warrior and had many conjuring secrets beside. But the Turkey was not satisfied and told the others [...]
6
Nov
A Micmac Legend N’karnayoo, of old time. Once it came to pass that Glooskap met with an evil witch, and she had made herself like unto a fair young girl, and believed that he could not know who she was. And she asked him to take her with him in his canoe. So they sailed [...]
6
Nov
An Iroquois Legend Many Moons before the white man came to the land of the Red Indian, there lived a young warrior who was the pride of his tribe; for dangerous deeds had he accomplished for the good of his people. He had slain the Great Heron that destroyed their children, and he had brought [...]
5
Nov
A Micmac Legend There was a chieftain in the days of yore. He had a great desire for a poor girl who was a servant, and who worked for him. To win this girl he first must lose his wife. He took his wife afar into the woods to gather spruce-gum, and then left her [...]
Tags: Micmac
5
Nov
An Inuit legend A long time ago when the world was first born, it was always dark in the north where the Inuit people lived. They thought it was dark all over the world until an old crow told the them about daylight and how he had seen it on his long journeys. The more [...]
Tags: Inuit
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