A Chippewa Legend Long ago, when the world was very young, the buffalo had no hump. He got his hump one summer because of his unkindness to birds. He liked to race across the prairies for fun. The foxes would run ahead of him and tell the little animals that their chief, the buffalo, was [...]
Genealogy & Story Telling
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Mar
An American Indian Legend – Nation Unknown Back in the beginning of time, when all things were being created, First Man lived in a forest of tall pine trees. One day while on a hunting trip, he discovered a small lodge. Next to the lodge was a tiny cornfield. “I wonder who lives here”, he [...]
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Mar
A Navajo Legend Before the Spaniards brought horses to the Dine (Navajo), they told about the Sun-God’s walking across the heavens, carrying the sun on his back. When he reached the west, he hung the sun on a peg, so that it could cool off. He spent the evening with his family, resting after his [...]
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Mar
A Cherokee Legend A long time ago when the Cherokee people were new upon the Earth, they thought that life would be much better if there was never any night. They beseeched the Ouga (Creator) that it might be day all the time and that there would be no darkness. The Creator heard their voices [...]
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Mar
A Lakota Legend On the edge of a forest there lived a large family of badgers. In the ground their dwelling was made. Its walls and roof were covered with rocks and straw. Old father badger was a great hunter. He knew well how to track the deer and buffalo. Every day he came home [...]
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Mar
A Micmac Legend Long ago turtle was the great story teller of all the birds and animals of Kluskap’s land. During the summer evenings he had many friends who sat around and listened to his tales but during the day they avoided turtle for they had work to do. When the cold Winter came from [...]
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Mar
A Cree Legend There would come a time when the Earth would be ravaged of it’s resources, the sea blackened, the streams poisoned, the deer dropping dead in their tracks. Just before it was too late, the Indian would regain his spirit and teach the white man reverence for the Earth, banding together with him [...]
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Mar
A Hopi Legend Halíksai! This place, Kaö’tûkvi, is somewhere east of the Pueblo Indians, and a long time ago many people lived there. West of them was a large mountain like the San Francisco Mountains (near Flagstaff). In these mountains lived many Katcinas. Those people sometimes had ceremonies (híhta totók’a yû’ngwa), but they did not [...]
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Mar
A Micmac Legend In the land of Kluskap many years ago there lived two sisters who loved to watch the stars. One day when they were walking in the forest they became lost and in the evening they watched the stars as always. In two bright stars, one sister saw an Eagle and the other [...]
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A Mohawk Legend In the time of the beginning, it was the way of my people, to rejoice in the birth of a child. The Old Ones, the Elders said that a child was the most precious gift given to the people by the Creator. So, in this time, was born a male child. As [...]
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