Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

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Every animal was anxious to go after the fire. Raven offered. He was large and strong, so he was sent first. He flew high and far across the water, and lighted on the sycamore t...

Men who dream of the buffaloes act like them and dance the buffalo-bull dance. Then the man who acts the buffalo has a real buffalo inside of him, people say, a little hard ball...

This warrior told how he had killed a man. At the end of the story, he yelled, "_Hi!_" One of the men with rattles, who was leading the dance, fell dead. The stranger sang of an...

At that time the Ponca had no animals but dogs to help them carry burdens. Wherever they went they had to go on foot, but the people were strong and fleet. They could run a grea...

So the wakanda gave the child back to them; homeward they went with him. When they reached the surface of the water with him, the child died. They gave him back to his father. T...

Then the Rabbit stopped a minute. He said, "Now when I sing 'on the edge of the field,' I dance that way"--and he danced over in that direction; "and when I sing '_lil! lil!_' y...

Then the child took the tobacco pouch and started after Ictinike. After getting in sight of the latter, Little Beaver was about to throw the pouch, when standing at a great dist...

Gray Squirrel was coming back, crying loud. He was coming back to attack them. He attacked the two birds. He tore open their water pouches by biting. He bit holes in them. At le...