The Anishinaabe Seven Fires Creation Story can be read as a theory on which all human beings share a fundamental love of reflecting reality in what they think and do. In this article, Marc Kruse, Nicolas Tanchuk, and Robert Hamilton argue that this ethical theory is correct but that the colonial ideology taught in our schools can obscure our…

This dissertation explores the way Kotiria/Wanano (E. Tukanoan, Kotiria hereafter) women of the Brazilian "Alto Rio Negro" (ARN) contrive (McDowell 1990) "kaya basa" "sad songs" using linguistic and musical resources to construct songs that express loneliness and other private emotions, while also creating alliances…

This research delves into the impact of established intellectual imperialistic representations and codes of culture imposed on Indigenous populations. The author offers new ways of viewing the critiques of Indigenous peoples and discussions of those representation acts by situating them within Indigenous identity and the manifestations of…

As a literary work initiated and directed by a committee of women, the "Pageant of Paha Sapa" captures the zeitgeist of the post-frontier era through the eyes of the influential women of one small town. Like all origin myths, this script presented the current populace as the rightful heirs of the place and its resources, having won them…

One of the best-studied, least-discussed texts of Native American oral literature is a long Mojave "epic" taken down from a man named Inyo-kutavere by Alfred Kroeber in 1902 and published in 1951. The text was published in twenty-nine pages along with forty-eight pages of commentary and twenty-five pages of notes. In 1999, Arthur Hatto, an…

The legend of the Cherokee Medicine Man is detailed and the origins of herbal medicine are accounted for in this brief story. (JC)

This children's tale details the rivalry between dogs and cats according to Ojibway Indian legend. (RTS)

This Sioux tale recounts the death of a village after the destruction of sacred snakes. (RTS)

A student of Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) wrote this story in 1910 describing a Pima legend concerned with the origin of the human race. (JC)

The Cherokee's version of how the earth was created is given. (NQ)

The Arapaho's version of how the earth was created is given. (NQ)

The article discusses the origin of the stone arrow heads. (NQ)