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Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter: Coyote Builds North America
Giving Birth to Thunder Sleeping with His Daughter Coyote Builds North America Author:Barry Lopez In sixty-eight tales from forty-two Native American tribes, Lopez recreates the timeless adventures and rueful wisdom of Old Man Coyote, a hero with a thousand faces, and a thousand tricks. — Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own ... more »magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death.
Barry Lopez has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom.
Coyote keeps his name (Okanagon) --
Coyote creates the earth (Crow) --
Coyote makes the human beings (Nez Perce) --
The creation of the Shoshone (Shoshone) --
How Coyote brought fire to the people (Karok) --
Coyote places the stars (Wasco) --
White Crow hides the animals (Kiowa) --
Coyote steals tobacco from Crow (Jicarilla Apache) --
Coyote brings a girl back to life (Quinault) --
Prairie falcon loses (Yokuts) --
The medicines (Menomini) --
The bungling host (Okanagon) --
Coyote and the Bear Women (Arapaho) --
Coyote's son (Naskapi) --
Coyote and Buffalo (Colville) --
Rattlesnake fools with Coyote (Sia) --
The borrowed feathers (Laguna) --
The wood-cutting ducks (Pima) --
Coyote and Sandhill Crane (Jicarilla Apache) --
The tree holders (Menomini) --
Always-Living-at-the-Coast (Kwakiutl) --
Coyote and the fire-leggings (Blackfoot) --
The eye-juggler (Cheyenne) --
Coyote marries a man (Plains Cree) --
Coyote's member keeps talking (Crow) --
The dancing bulrushes (Plains Ojibwa) --
The deceived blind men (Menomini) --
The berries in the stream (Blackfoot) --
Coyote builds a canoe (Tsimshian) --
Coyote and his anus (Nez Perce) --
Coyote and Spider (Southern Ute) --
Coyote and Beaver exchange wives (Cochiti) --
Coyote and Never Grows Bigger (Wichita) --
Coyote shows how he can lie (Jicarilla Apache) --
Coyote cuts his hair (Arapaho) --
Coyote and Skunk kill game (Navajo) --
Fisher teaches Coyote to make music (Mississaga) --