ISBN:
9781617030918
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1617030910
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1578066824
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9781578066827
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1578066832
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9781578066834
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (lxii, 290 pages)
DDC:
398.2/089/97387
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
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Choctaw Indians
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Choctaw mythology
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Legends
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Tales
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Choctaw Indians Folklore
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Choctaw mythology
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Tales
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Legends
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-284) and index
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The storytellers. Storytellers of the past -- Storytellers of the present
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The genres of Choctaw storytelling. Native terms -- Commentary and contextualization -- Patterns and performance -- A note on the texts
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Creation stories and myths. The Choctaw creation legend -- Nané Chaha -- Men and grasshoppers -- Creation of the tribes -- Origin of the Crawfish Band -- The creation of the Choctaw -- The migration legend -- Migration -- A short story of the creation of the first man -- Tradition of the flood -- The flood -- Lightning and thunder -- The origin of corn -- Corn-finding myth -- Wild geese and the origin of corn -- The geese, the ducks, and water -- The life of dogs -- How the snakes acquired their poison -- The owl -- Tashka and Walo -- The hunter of the sun -- Yallofalaiya -- Nameless Choctaw -- The hunter and the alligator
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Supernatural legends and encounters. The girl and the devil -- The eagle story -- Skate'ne -- Hoklonote'she -- A story of Kashikanchak -- Kashikanchak -- The spectre and the hunter -- The hunter who became a deer -- The man who became a snake -- Half-horse, half-man -- Kashehotapalo -- Na Losa Falaya -- Manlike creature -- Okwa Nahollo, white people of the water -- Big pond -- The water Choctaw -- Pas Falaya -- Nishkin Chafa, one-eye -- Headless man -- The inhuman Na Losa Chitto -- The demon Na Losa Chitto -- A big hog -- Big black hairy monster -- The black stump -- The Choctaw Robin Goodfellow -- The floating light -- Lights -- Kowi Anukasha -- Medicine woman -- The little man -- Pile of rocks -- A witch -- Choctaw doctors -- Shape-changer -- The baseball game -- Dancing lights -- Hanshok Okwa Hui'ga, dew drop (will-o-the-wisp) -- The blue light -- Disappearing lights -- The ghost -- Spirit of the dead -- Two brothers
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Historical legends. White men bring alcohol -- Fighting the Muskogees -- Crossing the line -- Death of Pushmataha -- Removal -- Sneaking back from Oklahoma -- Land swindling -- Grandfather's land -- Burning sticks
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Prophecy. Changing landscape and intermarriage -- Planes, roads, and culture -- Intermarriage, roads, and changing seasons -- Changing world -- Electricity, plumbing, and social dancing -- Cars, roads, and changing values -- A great illness -- The third removal -- War -- Extinction -- End of the world -- Land getting old
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Jokes and tall stories. The car -- Running water -- Whatyousay -- Time to kill hogs -- The horse's egg -- The funeral -- The white cat -- The man and the turkey -- The dog who spoke Choctaw -- The trip to Arkansas -- Tall stories -- The lucky shot -- Help from above
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Animal stories. The ball game -- Race between the hummingbird and the crane -- The hummingbird -- The dove story -- How the biskantak got water for the birds -- Why the buzzard has more offspring than the owl -- Why the guinea hen is speckled -- Boatmaker -- The hunters and the bears -- Rabbit and the bears -- How the bear lost his tail -- How the rabbit got a short tail -- How the bullfrog lost his horns -- How the alligator got his back -- Rabbit and Turtle race -- Race between the turkey and the terrapin -- Turtle and Turkey -- Why terrapins never get fat -- Turtle, Turkey, and the ants -- Why ther are seams in the terrapin's shell -- Why the turtle's shell is sewed up -- How the terrapin lost the ability to climb trees -- Raccoon and 'Possum -- Possum and Coon -- The panther and the opossum -- Possum and the fox -- Why the rabbit's skin is loose -- Bear and Rabbit -- How the rabbit fooled the turkeys -- Rabbit and Fox farm together -- Rabbit rides Wolf -- Rabbit gains a wife -- How Rabbit made the animals angry -- Rabbit and the garden
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Stories in Choctaw. The Choctaw creation legend -- Lightning and thunder -- Corn-finding myth -- A story of Kashikanchak -- Kashikanchak -- The man who became a snake -- The big pond -- Pas Falaya -- The inhuman Na Losa Chitto -- The black stump -- Cars, roads, and changing values -- The funeral -- The dog who spoke Choctaw -- Help from above -- The dove story -- How the biskantak got water for the birds
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" ... gathering of oral traditions from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians."
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