A Ojibwa Legend Before there was a man, two women, an old one and her daughter were the only humans on earth. The old woman had not needed a man in order to conceive. Ahki, the earth, also wa like a woman–female–but not as she is now, because trees and many animals had not yet [...]
Genealogy & Story Telling
19
Dec
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 [...]
4
Dec
A Choctaw Legend According to Choctaw legend, when the “returning waters” (that is the Choctaw term for the Great Flood) came, two birds, Bishinik (a small, speckled yellow billed, scissortail species of Woodpecker), and Folichik (the scissortail fly catcher), were the only two birds to escape drowning by flying as high as they could and [...]
1
Dec
A Cherokee Legend Seven wolves once caught a Groundhog and said, “Now we’ll kill you and have something good to eat.” But the Groundhog said, “When we find good food we must rejoice over it, as people do in the Green-corn dance. I know you mean to kill me and I can’t help myself, but [...]
Tags: Green-corn dance, Groundhog
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