Native American Legends (A - B)

Many a legend has been written by the Elders. Here are over 1400 of their stories and teachings, split over eight pages. I have 100's more Native American Legends to add, so please come back and revisit. Thank you and enjoy reading.

Abenaki Legends

• Abenaki Creation Story And The Importance Of Dreaming
• Abenaki Emergence Myth
• Glooscap Turns Bad Into Good
• Gluscabi And The Wind Eagle
• Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup
• How Glooscap Created Sugarloaf Mountain
• Oochigeas And The Invisible Boy
• Rabbit Calls A Truce
• The Story Of The Drum
• The Strange Origin Of Corn
  

Achomawi Legends

• Achomawi Creation Myth
• Achomawi Myth
• Blue Jay And Lizard And The Grizzly-Bears
• Coyote And Cloud
• Creation And Longevity
• Fish-Hawk And His Daughter

Acoma Legends

• Blue Corn Maiden And The Coming Of Winter
• Creation Of Summer And Winter
• How The Turtle Out Hunting Duped The Coyote
• The Origin Of Summer And Winter

Aleuts Legends

• Princess Raven
• Raven And His Grandmother
• Raven's Great Adventure - See Eskimo
• The Origin Of The Winds
• The White Faced Bear

Algonquin Legends

Note: There are a number of spellings of Glooscap

• Ableegumooch, The Lazy Rabbit (aka Aplíkmuj, The Lazy Rabbit - Micmaq)
• Adventures Of Great Rabbit
• Algon And The Sky Girl
• Algonquin Creation Myth
• Algonquin Flood Myth
• Glooscap And His People
• Glooscap And The Baby
• Glooskap The Divinity. Of Glooskap's Birth, And Of His Brother Malsum The Wolf
• Honeyed Words Can't Sweeten Evil
• How Glooscap Found The Summer version 1
• How Glooscap Found The Summer version 2
• How Mahtigwess, The Rabbit Dined With The Woodpecker Girls, And Was Again Humbled By Trying To Rival Them
• How One Of The Partridge's Wives Became A Sheldrake-Duck, And Why Her Feet And Feathers Are Red
• How The Partridge Built Good Canoes For All The Birds, And A Bad One For Himself
• Of The Adventure With Mooin, The Bear; It Being The Third And Last Time That Master Rabbit Made A Fool Of Himself
• Relating How The Rabbit Became Wise By Being Original, And Of The Terrible Tricks Which He By Magic Played Loup-Cervier, The Wicked Wild Cat
• The Amazing Adventures Of Master Rabbit With The Otter, The Woodpecker Girls, And Mooin The Bear. Also A Full Account Of The Famous Chase, In Which He Fooled Lusifee, The Wild Cat
• The Giant Magicians
• The Great Flood
• The Mournful Mystery Of The Partridge-Witch; Setting Forth How A Young Man Died From Love
• The Partridge Spirit
• The Spirit Bride
• The Story Of A Partridge And His Wonderful Wigwam

Alsea Legends

Note: Along with the Siletz and the Siuslaw Indians, they now are part of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon

• Coyote And The Two Frog Women

Anishnabe (Anishinabe) Legends

• A Sacred Story
• How The Fly Saved The River
• The Man And The Ravens
• Turtle Gets A Shell

Apache Legends

• A ga-n Becomes Raven Old Man's Son-In-Law: The ga-n Disappear From Tse-gots'uk
• An Apache Medicine Dance
• Apache Creation Legend
• Apache Tear Drop
• Badger Carries Darkness: Coyote And Bobcat Scratch Each Other
• Big Owl Chops Off His Manhood
• Coyote Fights A Lump Of Pitch
• Coyote Gets Rich Off The White Men
• Coyote Proves Himself A Cannibal
• Coyote Steals Sun's Tobacco
• Death Of The Great Elk (aka The Attack On The Giant Elk)
• How The Buffalo Were Released On Earth - See Comanche
• The Abandoned Children
• The Beaver And The Old Man
• The Destruction Of The Bear
• The Fox And The Deer
• The Fox And The Kingfisher
• The Fox And The Mountain Lion
• The Fox And The Porcupine
• The Fox And The Rabbit
• The Fox And The Wildcat
• The Jicarilla Genesis
• The Old Beggar
• The Origin Of Corn
• The Origin Of Curing Ceremonies
• The Origin Of Fire
• The Origin Of The Animals
• The Two Blind Old Women
• Turkey Makes The Corn And Coyote Plants It
• Why The Bat Hangs Upside Down
• Why The Bat Has Short Legs

Arapaho Legends

• Splinter Foot Girl
• The Lame Warrior
• The Star Husband
• The Sun Dance Wheel
• The Trickster Kills The Children

Arikara Legends

• Arikara Corn: The First to Know Maize
• The Legend Of The Peace Pipes
• The Magic Windpipe

Assiniboin Legends

• John The Bear
• The Legend of The White Horse Plain
• The Story Of Hungry Wolf

Aztec Legends

• Creation Story
• Earth Goddess

Bella Coola Legends

• The Child And The Cannibal
• The Man Who Acted As The Sun
• The Sun Tests His Son-In-Law

Blackfoot Legends

• Adventures Of Bull Turns Round
• A Meal For Nata'Yowa
• Beaver Meat
• Beaver Medicine
• Blackfoot Creation Story
• Blood Clot Boy
• Buffalo Berry
• Chief Mountain
• Daily Life And Customs
• Heavy Collar And The Ghost Woman
• How A Piegan Warrior Found The First Horses
• How The Otter Skin Became Great "Medicine"
• How The Worm Pipe Came To The Blackfoot / Origin Of The Worm Pipe
• Kut-O'-Yis
• Old Man And Old Woman
• Old Man And The Beginning Of The World
• Old Man And The Roasted Squirrels / Old Man And The Lynx
• Old Man Doctors
• Origin Of The Medicine Pipe
• Origin Of The Sweat Lodge / Origin Of The Medicine Lodge
• Mik-A'pi Red Old Man
• Sacred Otter
• The Bad Weapons
• The Bad Wife
• The Bear Woman
• The Bears
• The Beaver Medicine
• The Blackfoot Genesis
• The Buffalo Rock [2 versions]
• The Bull Band
• The Dog And The Stick
• The Elk
• The Fast Runners
• The First Buffalo Stone
• The Fox
• The Ghosts' Buffalo
• The Lost Children
• The Lost Woman
• The Making Of The Earth
• The Orphan Boy And The Elk Dog
• The Other Bands
• The Past And The Present
• The Peace With The Snakes
• The Piqued Buffalo-Wife
• The Race
• The Rock
• The Sacred Weed
• The Story Of Poia
• The Story Of The Buffalo Dance
• The Story Of Two Brothers
• The Theft From The Sun
• The Trickster's Race
• The Wolf-Man
• The Wonderful Bird
• The Wise Man Of Chief Mountain
• Two War Trails
• Water Spirit's Gift Of Horses
• Why Blackfeet Never Kill Mice
• Why The Birch Tree Wears Slashes In Its Bark
• Why The Chipmunk's Back Is Striped
• Why The Curlew's Bill Is Long And Crooked
• Why The Mountain Lion Is Long And Lean
• When The World Was Young

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Other Native American Legends

• Native American Legends: Abenaki - Blackfoot
• Native American Legends: Caddo - Crow
• Native American Legends: Eskimo - Hupa
• Native American Legends: Inca - Lumbee
• Native American Legends: Maidu - Ottawa
• Native American Legends: Paiute - Squamish
• Native American Legends: Tewa - Ute
• Native American Legends: Wabanaki - Zuni