Texas Indian Myths & Legends

by Jane Arcger

Overview

Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556227257
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	01/06/2000
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 7.52(h) x 0.78(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Caddo Confederacies	1
	Myths and Legends	2
	The Origin of Animals	2
	The Prediction of Tonin	3
	Evening Star and Orphan Star	4
	Maiden's Wish Upon a Star	8
	Orphan Boy Gets Power	12
	She-Who-Calls-the-Buffalo	15
	Mother-of-All-the-Pecan-Trees	17
	Path-of-the-Cyclone	19
	Ten Brothers and the Cannibals	21
	Death of a Cannibal	24
	Arrows for a Ghost	26
	Giant Turtle	27
	Rabbit Steals Mountain Lion's Teeth	28
	Why Hawks Have Thin Legs	30
	Mountain Lion Tracks Coyote	31
	Corn Mill Coyote	34
	History	35
	Lipan Apache	47
	Myths and Legends	48
	Origin of the Lipan Apache	48
	Changing Woman Gives Birth to Killer-of-Enemies	50
	Killer-of-Enemies Slays Monsters	52
	Changing Woman Regains Wise One	59
	Killer-of-Enemies Teaches Raid and Warfare	63
	Prairie Dogs Save a Woman	64
	Horse Ceremony	68
	Wind and Thunder Quarrel	70
	Rescue by the Dead	71
	Coyote Takes Buffalo Away from Crow	75
	Coyote and Wildcat Compare Claws	79
	A Fearless Young Man	80
	Deer Woman	82
	History	83
	Wichita Confederacy	91
	Myths and Legends	92
	Escape from Sun Buzzard	92
	Swift Hawks and the Buffalo Women	96
	Spider Woman and Spider Man	99
	Not-Know-Who-You-Are Saves the People	113
	Turtle's War Party	119
	Bad Boy and Warrior Women	121
	Coyote and Skunk Plan a Feast	127
	Coyote Challenges Never-Grows-Larger	130
	History	132
	Comanche	141
	Myths and Legends	142
	Origin of Days and Seasons	142
	Spots on the Moon	143
	Deer Medicine	148
	A Girl's Gift to Her People	151
	Two Buffalo Speak	154
	Comanche Captive	155
	Nuahnuh's Moccasins	157
	Horse Raid	159
	Ghost Warrior	160
	Big Owl	162
	Otter and Fox Hospitality	162
	Fox and Owl Juggle Eyes	165
	Turtle Challenges Rabbit to a Race	166
	Coyote Girl	168
	History	170
	Alabama-Coushatta	181
	Myths and Legends	182
	Origin of the Alabama and Coushatta	182
	The Great Flood	183
	When Bear Lost Fire	184
	Illness Comes to the World	186
	Rescue of the Sun	188
	A Game of Water	189
	Pigeon Hawk's Gift	190
	Corn Woman	192
	Journey to the Sky	193
	Snake Woman	197
	Terrapin Aids Opossum	198
	Crane Challenges Hummingbird to a Race	200
	Little-Yellow-Mouse Confronts Owl	201
	Tar Baby	202
	Rabbit Tricks Wildcat	206
	Little People	207
	Old Dog	208
	History	210
	Sources	221
	Bibliography	227