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A revealing analysis of key themes in Native American origin myths—and their stark contrast with the exceptionalist values of the United States. Tales of the Earth is a comprehensive yet concise overview of Native American mythologies. After outlining theories of the origins of Native North Americans, David Leeming considers the creation myths of many tribes, emphasizing four commonly occurring figures: the Great Spirit, the trickster, the goddess, and the hero. Leeming suggests that in addition to these figures, Native American mythologies have in common a deep reverence for the earth and for community responsibility as opposed to individualism—tenets that stand in stark contrast to the concepts of exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny that characterize the United States, a nation that was built on ancient tribal land.
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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
Acoma 72, 73, 73, 74, 77
creation 72–5
Adams, Ansel 82
African Americans 119
Akimel O’odam 21
Alariak, Nuvualiak, Sedna with Fingers Cut 64
Alexander, Hartley Burr 9
Algonquians 21
Algonquin 21, 66, 92
creation 66
American exceptionalism 119
Anasazi 18
Anishinaabe see Ojibwe
Apache 21, 35, 71, 77, 81, 110, 116, 124
Arapaho 21, 110
Armour, R. C., ‘Still the Waters Rose’ 52
Barry, David Francis
Chief Sitting Bull 99
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill 113
Bates, Edward
Chief Geronimo 116
Beringia 19–21, 20
Bierhorst, John 9
Black Elk 28, 30, 84
Blackfoot 21, 90, 93
creation 31–3
hero see Kutoyis
Blessingway see Navajo
Blood 31
creation 31–3
Boisseau, Alfred, Louisiana Indians Walking Along a Bayou (The Trail of Tears) 118
Bouttais, Pieter Balthazar, ‘Admiral Christopher Columbus Discovers the Island of Hispaniola’ 12
Buffalo Bill Cody 30, 113–14, 113
buffalo dance 107–10, 108
Bull, Amos Bad Heart, Custer Battle Field (Battle of Little Big Horn) 110
Cahokia 18
Calf Pipe 84–7
Catlin, George
Buffalo Dance, Mandan 108
The Cutting Scene, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony 39
Changing Woman 40, 77–81, 88, 100, 102, 104
Cherokee 21, 69, 114–15
creation 69
Cheyenne 21, 83
Chickasaw 21, 45
Chumash 82
Clovis people 20
Collingwood, Herbert W., ‘Squanto’ 121
Columbus, Christopher 11, 12, 13, 18
Comanche 21
Cora, Angel de 49
Corn Mother 60, 81, 124
Cornplanter, Jesse 9
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de 13
Cortés, Hernando 13
Coyote 8, 31, 43, 49, 54–8, 61, 91, 123
Coyote and the Rock 47–8
Crazy Horse 109–11
creation myth types 7
Cree 21
Creek 21, 113, 115
Crow 21, 57, 91
creation 57
culture heroes 8, 23, 25, 39, 50, 54–5, 59, 61, 66, 84, 89–91, 124
Curtin, Jeremiah 8
Curtis, Edward 5, 40–41, 56
Navajo medicine man 41
Navajo sand painting 40
Custer’s Last Stand 110, 113
Dakota see Sioux
Declaration of Independence 119
deus faber creation 34–5
Diegueno 36
creation 36
Dine see Navajo
Doanmoe, Etahdleu, View of an Attack 114
Dobyns, Henry F. 22
dry paintings 40, 81
earth-diver creation 7, 25, 53, 57, 68, 124
Earth Mother 65–70
Earthmaker 31
emergence creation 7, 25, 70–82, 122, 124
Erdoes, Richard 9
Erikson, Leif 11
Evening Star 33
ex nihilo creation 7–8, 25, 27 32, 66–7
Ferris, Jean Gerome, The First Thanksgiving 10
Five Civilized Tribes 115
Forestier, Amédée, ‘The Ghost Dance of the Sioux Indians in North America’ 97
Franklin, Benjamin 115
genocide 119
Geronimo 110–11, 114, 125
Gast, John, American Progress 120
Ghost Dance 96–8
movement 97–8, 113, 125
Gitche Manitou 27, 52
Glooscap 50, 51, 61, 66, 92, 125
as monster slayer 90–93
goddess significance 8, 25–6, 36, 65–6, 121, 124–5
Great Goddess 40, 65–6, 98
Great Hare, the 43, 52–4, 91
Great Myster...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: Who Are the Native Americans?
- ONE: The Great Spirit
- TWO: The Trickster
- THREE: The Goddess
- FOUR: The Hero
- Conclusion: Native American Creation and the U.S. Today
- Appendix: Map of Native American Tribes
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX