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Huron Creation Myth

(A Wyandot (Huron) Legend)

In the beginning there was only one water and the water animals that lived in it.Then a woman fell f...

In the beginning

(A Yuchi Legend)

Southeastern Indian traditions indicated their belief in an Upper World, a Lower World, and This World, where the...

When the World was young

A Blackfoot Legend

When the world was young, Old Man and Old Woman Coyote were walking around. "Let us decide how things ...

Cherokee Women

(A Cherokee Legend)

Women in the Cherokee society were equal to men. They could earn the title of War Women and sit in councils as e...

The Rabbit and the Elk

A Sioux Legend

The little rabbit lived with his old grandmother, who needed a new dress.

"I will go out and trap a deer or...

Earth Goddess

(An Aztec Legend)

Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca represent the bright and dark aspects of the Creator. The earth herself is the nouri...

Origin of the Pleiades

An Onondaga Legend

A long time ago a party of Indians went through the woods toward a good hunting-ground, which they had l...

The Red Man and the Uktena

A Cherokee Legend

Two brothers went hunting together, and when they came to a good camping place in the mountains they ...

How the Fly saved the River

An Anishnabe (Anishinabe) Legend

Many, many years ago when the world was new, there was a beautiful river. Fish in gre...

Viracocha created the universe, sun, moon and stars, time (by commanding the sun to move over the sky) and civilization itself. -- Viracocha teremt...

The Little Boy and the Rattlesnake

(A Cherokee Legend)

The little boy was walking down a path and he came across a rattlesnake. The rattlesnake wa...

The Creation Story

A Papago Legend

Long ago, they say, when the Earth was not yet finished, darkness lay upon the water and they rubbed each other...

Basket Woman, Mother of the Stars

(An American Indian Legend - Nation Unknown)

Back in the beginning of time, when all things were being created, ...

The Fifth World

(A Navajo Legend)

First Man was not satisfied with the Fourth World. It was a small barren land; and the great water had soaked th...

Men visit the sky

(A Seminole Legend)

Near the beginning of time, five Seminole Indian men wanted to visit the sky to see the Great Spirit.

They ...

Grandmother's Creation Story

(By: Muskeke Iskwew (Sharron John, Creek)

"Long ago the Creator looked out over the perfect world he had made, at the ...

Creation of Man

(A Miwok Legend)

After Coyote had completed making the world, he began to think about creating man. He called a council of all the...

Lakota Creation Myth

(A Lakota Legend)

There was another world before this one. But the people of that world did not behave themselves. Displeased...

Crow Necklace And His Medicine Ceremony

(A Gros Ventre Legend)

There was a party of Gros Ventre Indians who went out for a hunt from Knife River wh...

Origin of our Tribal Flower - The Trailing Arbutus

(An Ottawa Legend)

Many, many moons ago, there lived an old man alone in his lodge beside a stre...

First Creator and Lone Man

(A Mandan Legend)

It is our custom to tell an old-time story when the corn is ripe. We have a man called Lone Man. As he...

Creation by Women

(An Iroquois Legend)

In the beginning there was no Earth to live on, but up above, in the Great Blue, there was a woman who drea...

Stealing the Sun

(A Cherokee Legend)

Long ago the Cherokee people lived in a dark world. They had no Sun or Moon or light of any kind. It was so d...

Emergence

(A Hopi Legend)

After the departure of Spider Woman, the people set out once more to discover their new world. Alone they set out, trave...

Creation of the Yakima World

(A Yakima Legend)

In the beginning of the world, all was water. Whee-me-me-ow-ah, the Great Chief Above, lived up in ...

The Spider and the People

(An Osage Legend)

One day, the chief of the Isolated Earth people was hunting in the forest. He was also hunting for a s...

Coyote steals Sun's Tobacco

(An Apache Legend)

One day Slim Coyote started out to Sun's house. When he got there Sun was not home, but his wife was...

The Corn Spirit

(A Tuscarora Legend)

Long ago, they say, there was a village of people whose cornfields were blessed with good harvests, year after...

Old Man at the Beginning

(A Crow Legend)

At the beginning of the world, there was nothing but water.

It was dark in the world, and no one saw the ...

White Potato Clan

(A Creek Legend)

When the 'others' invaded the land of the People, they settled in and made homes and began to farm the land. Thi...

The Elk Spirit of Lost Lake

(A Wasco Legend)

In the days of our grandfathers, a young warrior named Plain Feather lived near Mount Hood. His guardi...

Symbolism of the Eagle Feather

(A Lumbee Legend)

In the beginning, the Great Spirit above gave to the animals and birds wisdom and knowledge and t...

Rebel Club NYC May 25 2007

Singer/songwriter/musician, poet, artist, dancer, actor, teacher, and activist.

The cycle of life for the woman is the baby, girl, woman, and grandmother.

These are the four directions of life.

She has been given by natural law...

at Kane Hall, UW, 2002

Indian Summer

(An Penobscot Legend)

Long ago when spirits still spoke to human beings, there lived an old man named Zimo He resided in a Penobscot ...

Puma and the Bear

A Ute Legend

One day Puma took his son hunting with him. The Bear came to Puma's tent and saw his wife there, and immediately fe...

llow Jacket and Ant

(A Nez Perce Legend)

Envy will cause good friends to become enemies. Ant was jealous of Yellow Jacket eating salmon, even thou...