Arikara Traditional Narratives

ALFRED MORSETTE

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

• Ancient Times
  1. Story   Arikara   How Summer Came to the North Country
  2. Story   Arikara   The Holy Boy Who Stopped Animals from Killing Humans
  3. Story   Arikara   The Race Between the Horse and the Buffalo
  4. Story   Arikara   Long Teeth and Drinks Brain Soup
  5. Story   Arikara   Bloody Hands and the Star Boy
  6. Story   Arikara   Bounding Head and the Four Young Women
  7. Story   Arikara   The Young Woman Who Swallowed a Stone
  8. Story   Arikara   The Man with the Sharpened Leg
  9. Story   Arikara   The Young Woman Who Married the Moon
  10. Story   Arikara   The Young Woman Who Became a Bear
  11. Story   Arikara   Corn Woman and Buffalo Woman
  12. Story   Arikara   The Boy and the Hoop Game of the Buffalo

• Power Bestowed
  13. Story   Arikara   When the Bears Attacked the Arikaras
  14. Story   Arikara   The Foolish Ones Who Killed the Beloved Snake Child
  15. Story   Arikara   Hidden Man and the Two Holy Men
  16. Story   Arikara   Baby Chief and the Two Holy Men
  17. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Pitied by the Spotted Buffalos
  18. Story   Arikara   Red Dog and the Four Stars
  19. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Who Became a Snake and Carries the Antelope
  20. Story   Arikara   Mice Mouth, the Boy Blessed by the Mice
  21. Story   Arikara   The Young Woman Who Married an Elk
  22. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Who Was Given Elk Power
  23. Story   Arikara   The Young Man with the Feathered Staff
  24. Story   Arikara   The Man and His Bear Child
  25. Story   Arikara   The Young Men and the Snapping Turtle
  26. Story   Arikara   The Young Woman Who Married a Horse
  27. Story   Arikara   The Boy Given Power by the Bighorn Sheep
  28. Story   Arikara   Young Hawk and the Power He Lost
  29. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Arikara Crazy Dog Society
  30. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Hidatsa Crazy Dog Society
  31. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Round Dance
  32. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Pawnee and Other Grass Dance Songs
  33. Story   Arikara   The Pawnee Woman and the Scalped Man
  34. Story   Arikara   The Young Man with the Broken Leg and the Scalped Man
  35. Story   Arikara   The Seven Scalped Men and the Hunter
  36. Story   Arikara   Wakes Up The Hills and Red Shield, the Scalped Man

• Historical Events
  37. Story   Arikara   The Separation of the Hidatsas and the Crows
  38. Story   Arikara   The Arikara Separation from the Pawnees
  39. Story   Arikara   Hidatsa and Arikara Relations
  40. Story   Arikara   The Killing of White Horse's Son
  41. Story   Arikara   The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
  42. Story   Arikara   The Custer Expedition
  43. Story   Arikara   The Eagle Trappers
  44. Story   Arikara   The Horse Raid with the Bear Hide
  45. Story   Arikara   An Assiniboine Raid
  46. Story   Arikara   Two Kettles and the Assiniboine Raiders
  47. Story   Arikara   A Sioux Attack on Like-A-Fishhook Village
  48. Story   Arikara   War Story of Wet Mocassin and Old Bull
  49. Story   Arikara   War Story of Big Bear and Lump Face
  50. Story   Arikara   War Story of He Stands Sideways
  51. Story   Arikara   The White Horse: A Crow War Story

• Mysterious Incidents
  52. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Virgin's Breasts Buttes
  53. Story   Arikara   The Priest Who Turned into a Stone
  54. Story   Arikara   The Fight between the Bear and the Bullao Bull
  55. Story   Arikara   The Elk Doctor Who Called the Elk
  56. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Who Did Not Believe in Ghosts
  57. Story   Arikara   The Dancing Ghost
  58. Story   Arikara   The Mysterious Snake Seen by Short Bear
  59. Story   Arikara   The Eagle Trappers and the Scalped man

TALES

• Coyote
  60. Story   Arikara   Coyote Fools Lucky Man
  61. Story   Arikara   Coyote and Beaver

Please send remarks or queries to

• Logan Sutton, ldsutton@indiana.edu. Research.