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" American Indian myths and legends / "
selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
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BL
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627781
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| Title & Author
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American Indian myths and legends /\ selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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| Series Statement
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Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library
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xv, 527 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0394507967
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: 9780394507965
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: 0394740181
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: 9780394740188
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| Notes
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Series statement from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-525) and index
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| Contents
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Rabbit boy kicked that blood clot around: tales of human creation -- The place of emergence: tales of world creation -- The eye of the great spirit: tales of the sun, moon, and stars -- Ordeals of the hero: monsters and monster slayers -- Counting coup: war and the warrior code -- The sound of flutes: tales of love and lust -- Coyote laughs and cries: trickster tales -- Four legs, two legs, and no legs: stories of animals and other people -- Something whistling in the night: ghosts and the spirit world -- Only the rocks and mountains last forever: visions of the end
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| Abstract
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Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world
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Indians of North America-- Northwest, Pacific, Folklore
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Indian mythology-- North America
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Indians of North America, Legends
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Indians of North America-- Religion and mythology
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| Dewey Classification
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398.2/08997
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E98.F6A47 1984
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Erdoes, Richard,1912-2008
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Ortiz, Alfonso,1939-1997
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