Reading: Native American Heroes

I finished adding notes to the Native American Heroes unit. The most exciting thing was finding this amazing anthology from 1961 that is available online at Hathi Trust: Indian tales of North America: an anthology for the adult reader by Tristram Potter Coffin. It looks fabulous; I'm not quite sure of its copyright status, but in any case, I really need to read this book!

Since I've done notes on both parts of the unit now, I can change its status at Diigo!

Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away
You can read about the Crow people at Wikipedia. The story was collected by S. C. Simms in the summer of 1902 when he was working with the Crow (Absahrokee) people of Montana. His specific informant was a storyteller named Bull-That-Goes-Hunting. You can find the other Crow stories told by Bull-That-Goes-Hunting at Hathi Trust.
I added the subheadings to the story to help make it easier to follow.
You will see that the twin brothers perform a whole series of heroic feats, culminating in a task that the Thunder-Bird gives to them. This photo shows a Crow tipi painted with a Thunderbird image:

The Son-in-Law Tests
The story was originally published by in Myths and Folklore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa by F. G. Speck in 1915; you can find the book online at Hathi Trust. You can read the story of the other sons-in-law of Wemicus there.
In this story, you will see how Wemicus's daughter helps her husband again and again to escape from Wemicus's tricks. Wemicus, however, is a manitou, a spirit, so it is hard to defeat him. You can read more about manitous at Wikipedia.
Lake Timagami (Temagami) is located in Canada; the name means "deep water by the shore" in the Ojibwa language. You can find out more at Wikipedia.


The Jealous Father
Many of the Cree people live today in what is Canada, and there are also Cree people who live in Montana. You can find out more at Wikipedia.
This story was originally published in Notes on the eastern Cree and northern Saulteaux by Alanson Skinner (1911), which you can find at Hathi Trust. The Walrus is an important character in this first part of the story, and the book contains another story about the Walrus here: Wemishus.
In this part of the story Aioswé's son continues to defeat one enemy after another after another so that he can return home.
For more about "whiskey jack," or Wisakedjak, the trickster whose name is also given to the jay-bird, see Wikipedia. You can also find more information in Coffin's Indian Tales of North America.


Dirty-BoyThe Okanagon people live in the Pacific Northwest; you can read more about them at Wikipedia. In this story, Sun and Star come down from the sky, in disguise; the great Sun becomes "Dirty Boy." Coyote is part of the story too, and so is Wolf.
You will meet another character in this part of the story: Raven.
There is a reference in this story to a tool called a celt; you can read more about celts at Wikipedia.