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Subtopics of "Folklore"
  Anishinabe  
  Apache  
  Blackfoot  
  Cherokee  
  Iroquois  
  Lenape  
  Navajo  
  Prophecies  
  Sioux  
  Storytellers  
  Wabanaki  
 

Related topics:
  Native American (Myths)      Native American (World Tales)      Native American (Cultural)      Folklore (Society)     
 

Web pages on "Folklore":

A Collection of Yukon River Indian Legends
Small e-text collection of tales.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=14707

Aadizookaanag -- Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths
Essay on Indian legends as cultural property, with links to authentic sources of folktales.
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/myths.html

Acjachamen Creation Myth
A student paper exploring Juaneno creation mythology.
http://iserver.saddleback.cc.ca.us/div/la/neh/juaneno.htm

Bladder-Head Boy
A Kaska legend recalling the now-extinct woolly mammoth.
http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm

Canku Ota: Stories Index
Archive of native legends and folktales published in this Indian cultural newsletter.
http://www.turtletrack.org/CO_Indices/CO_Index_Story.htm

Eldrbarry's Raven Tales
Collection of Indian legends from the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/rvn.htm

Indian Legends
Tribal index of Native American stories. With links and a discussion forum.
http://www.indianlegend.com

Indian Story and Song from North America
Nineteenth-century collection of native legends by Alice Fletcher.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=07363

Indian Why Stories
Frank Linderman's 1915 compilation of various native legends and tales.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=LinIndi&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed

Native American Indian Folklore
List of tales indexed by tribe.
http://www.earthbow.com/native/

Native American Literature
Repository for legends and traditional stories from hundreds of tribes.
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/natlit.htm

Native American Lore
Index of Indian legends by title and theme.
http://home.no.net/norweagl/lore/index0.htm

Native American Stories
Collection of Indian legends, mostly unattributed, from various tribal traditions.
http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/stories3/

Native American Stories and Legends
Collection of American Indian folktales from various tribes.
http://mytwobeadsworth.com/NLoreopen.html

Native American Trickster Tales
Four texts from different tribal traditions, with introduction and links.
http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/coyote.html

Nevada Native Story-Telling
Several Paiute and Shoshone legends, with lesson plans for using them in the classroom.
http://www.unr.edu/nnap/NT/st-1.htm

Piasa Bird Legend
The fictional Illinois "Indian" legend of the Piasa Bird, and the explanation of its true origins (a white fictionwriter invented it in the 19th century).
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dreyer_infonet/piasa4.htm

Stonee's WebLodge
Collection of traditional tales from many Indian traditions.
http://lehua.ilhawaii.net/~stony/

Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans
Lumbee, Cherokee, and Occaneechi traditional storytelling and stories.
http://www.ibiblio.org/storytelling/

Tales from the Totems of the Hidery
Nineteenth-century collection of Haida legends.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=06053

Tales of the North American Indians
1929 collection of Indian legends and stories.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai/

The Children and the Hummingbird
Excerpt from a book of Hopi legends.
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam324.htm

The Ku Bird and the Walking Stone
Two tales excerpted from a book of Yaqui myths.
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam161.htm

The Legend of Eagleman
An excerpt from a collection of Pima Indian tales.
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/samples/sam423.htm

The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife
Nineteenth-century recounting of a Haida legend.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=14896

Zicahota Tales and Legends
Traditional stories from several Indian nations.
http://www.zicahota.com/tales.html

Zuñi Folk Tales
Frank Hamilton Cushing's 1901 collection of legends and stories.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/zuni/zft/


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