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Arikara Traditional Narratives

LILLIAN BRAVE

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

  • Ancient Times
    1. Story   Arikara   Bounding Head
    2. Story   Arikara   Long Teeth and Drinks Brains Soup
    3. Story   Arikara   The Poor Boy Who Won the Wealthy Man's Daughter
    4. Story   Arikara   Bloody Hands and Old Woman Spider
    5. Story   Arikara   When Bloody Hands Went on the Warpath (Version 1)
    6. Story   Arikara   When Bloody Hands Went on the Warpath (Version 2)
    7. Story   Arikara   When Bloody Hands Became an Eagle
  • Power Bestowed
    1. Story   Arikara   The Man Married to Buffalo Woman and Corn Woman
    2. Story   Arikara   The Brother and Sister Given Elk Power
    3. Story   Arikara   The Origin of the Arikara Crazy Dog Society
    4. Story   Arikara   The Foolish Young Man Given the Sweat Lodge
  • Historical and Mysterious Events
    1. Story   Arikara   Carries the Horn and the Sioux Raiders
    2. Story   Arikara   The Hidatsa Who Ridiculed the Arikara Bear Doctors

TALES

  • Others
    1. Story   Arikara   Lumpy Toad and the Rain Storm
    2. Story   Arikara   The Little Spring Peepers and the Lumpy Toad
    3. Story   Arikara   The Fire Maker and Why Children Misbehave

ELLA P. WATERS

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

  • Ancient Times
    1. Story   Arikara   The Star Husband and Old Woman's Grandson
    2. Story   Arikara   The Girl Who Became a Bear
    3. Story   Arikara   When the Bears Attacked the Arikaras
    4. Story   Arikara   The Foolish Ones Who Killed the Beloved Snake Child
  • Power Bestowed
    1. Story   Arikara   Mice Mouth, the boy Pitied by the Mice
    2. Story   Arikara   Tied Face, the Boy Given Power by the Thunderbirds
    3. Story   Arikara   The Wild Buffalo
    4. Story   Arikara   Bear's Teeth, the Man Given Horse Medicine
    5. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Given Power by the Rabbit
    6. Story   Arikara   The Young Man and the Scalped Man
    7. Story   Arikara   The Scalped Man and His Brother
  • Historical Events
    1. Story   Arikara   The Killing of the Chief's Son

DAN HOWLING WOLF

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

  • Ancient Times
    1. Story   Arikara   The Star Husband and the Old Woman's Grandson
  • Power Bestowed
    1. Story   Arikara   Mice Mouth, the Boy Given Power by the Mice
    2. Story   Arikara   The Scalped Man Who Helped the Hunter
  • Historical Events
    1. Story   Arikara   The Horse Raid with the Bear Hide
    2. Story   Arikara   When Coyote Helped Steal Horses from the Sioux
    3. Story   Arikara   The Sioux Captive Tortured by the Mosquitoes
    4. Story   Arikara   The Disliked Young Man Who Went on the Warpath

TALES

  • Others
    1. Story   Arikara   Grasshopper, Ant, and Mosquito Go on the Warpath

DAN HOPKINS

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

    1. Story   Arikara   The Young Man Who Became a Snake and the One Pitied by the Thunderbirds
    2. Story   Arikara   The Wild Buffalo
    3. Story   Arikara   Stays In The Lodge Dressed In finery and the Horse Raiding Party
    4. Story   Arikara   The Singing Coyote
    5. Story   Arikara   The Scalped Man Who Stole Things

TALES

MATTHEW WHITE BEAR

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

TALES

MARY GILLETTE

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

    1. Story   Arikara   Eats Ashes, the Poor Boy Who Became a Chief
    2. Story   Arikara   Has the Horn and the Sioux Raiders
  • Ritualism
    1. Story   Arikara   A Prayer to Mother Moon and a Midwife's Song for a Newborn Infant
    2. Story   Arikara   A Love Song

WILLIAM DEANE, JR.

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

TALES

    1. Story   Arikara   Coyote and Artichoke
    2. Story   Arikara   Ant, Cricket, Mosquito and Spring Peeper Go on the Warpath

ELEANOR CHASE

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

TALES

ESTHER PERKINS

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST

JOE FOX

NARRATIVES OF THE PAST


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