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Resources in This Category

• A Collection of Yukon River Indian Legends

  http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.14707/2?r=0&s=1
  Small e-text collection of tales.

• Canku Ota: Stories Index

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

• Eldrbarry's Raven Tales

  http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/rvn.htm
  Collection of Indian legends from the Pacific Northwest.

• First People Legends

  http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html
  Online collection of more than 1300 tales from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

• Indian Story and Song from North America

  http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.07363/3?r=0&s=1
  Nineteenth-century collection of native legends by Alice Fletcher.

• Native American Literature

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

• Native American Stories

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

• Piasa Bird Legend

  http://www.illinoishistory.com/piasabird.html
  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).

• Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans

  http://www.ibiblio.org/storytelling/
  Lumbee, Cherokee, and Occaneechi traditional storytelling and stories.

• Tales from the Totems of the Hidery

  http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.06053/3?r=0&s=1
  Nineteenth-century collection of Haida legends.

• Tales of the North American Indians

  http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai/
  1929 collection of Indian legends and stories.

• The Children and the Hummingbird

  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=324&title=Spider+Woman+Stories&subtitle=&author=G.+M.+Mullett
  Excerpt from a book of Hopi legends.

• The Ku Bird and the Walking Stone

  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=161&title=Yaqui+Myths+and+Legends&subtitle=&author=Ruth+Warner+Giddings
  Two tales excerpted from a book of Yaqui myths.

• The Legend of Eagleman

  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=423&title=Pima+Indian+Legends&subtitle=&author=Anna+Moore+Shaw
  An excerpt from a collection of Pima Indian tales.

• The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife

  http://eco.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.14896/2?r=0&s=1
  Nineteenth-century recounting of a Haida legend.

• Zuñi Folk Tales

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

Related Categories

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