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Lakota tales and texts : wisdom stories, customs, lives, and instruction of the Dakota peoples /

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Main Authors: Stars, Ivan., Iron Shell, Peter, (Author), Buechel, Eugene, (Author)
Contributors: Manhart, Paul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Dakota
Published: [Pine Ridge, S.D.] : Red Cloud Lakota Language and Cultural Center, <U+fffd>1978.
Subjects and Genres:
Lakota dialect > Texts.
Lakota Indians > Social life and customs > Folklore.
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Table of Contents:
  • Falling star
  • A turtle goes out to make war
  • Iktomi goes thata way and meets an Iya
  • Corn
  • Rock boy
  • The scabby belly
  • The coyote helps a man
  • An old woman kills many men
  • The fox and Coyote ran together
  • Iktomi's lice meet a wolf
  • Would you know! A toad steals a boy
  • the really crazy crane
  • Four men grow up wild
  • A man hunts for his wife and child
  • rabbits stay in willows and driftwood
  • The magpie wins the race
  • A loose-tongued boy remains a boy
  • Shooting skill
  • Iktomi and the crane, or, How Iktomi tries to fly
  • Iktomi and the night hawk
  • Iktomi is very yellow
  • Iktomi is black
  • A young woman dies but goes home alive
  • A young woman eats nothing for 30 days but lives
  • A young man quarrels with a spirit
  • The spirit chased us
  • A young man pouts
  • Good weasel goes to war, the Mastodon
  • The spirit road (the Milky Way)
  • A spirit that goes home talks
  • A spirit runs off with a woman
  • They say all blacks God made and how they tell now of their creation.

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