New PDF release: Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, Second Edition (Sources

By Alice Beck Kehoe,Darrell Kipp

Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, initially released in 1908 by way of the yank Museum of usual background, introduces such figures as outdated guy, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. integrated are stories with ritualistic origins emphasizing the prototypical Beaver-Medicine and the jobs performed via Elk-Woman and Otter-Woman, in addition to a presentation of celebrity Myths, which display the astronomical wisdom of the Blackfoot Indians. Narratives approximately Raven, Grasshopper, and Whirlwind-Boy account for stipulations in humanity and nature. a few of the tales within the concluding team, equivalent to “The misplaced young ones” and “The Ghost-Woman,” have been stories informed to Blackfoot children.

These narratives have been accrued early within the 20th century from the Piegans in Montana and from the North Piegans, the Bloods, and the Northern Blackfoot in Canada. so much have been translated via D. C. Duvall and revised for Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians via Clark Wissler. Darrell Kipp presents an creation to the hot Bison Books edition.

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