Native American Legends (A - B)
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Many a legend has been written by the Elders. Here are over 1400 of their stories and teachings, split over eight sections.
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Abenaki | Achomawi | Acoma | Aleut |
Algonquin | Alsea | Anishnabe | Apache |
Arapaho | Arikara | Assiniboin | Aztec |
Bella Coola | Blackfoot |
Abenaki Legends
- Abenaki Creation Story And The Importance Of Dreaming
- Abenaki Emergence Myth
- Glooscap, The Trickster
- 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
Aleut 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 a woman lost a gun for fear of the Weewillmekq'
- 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
Anishnabe (Anishinabe) Legends
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
Assiniboin Legends
Aztec Legends
Bella Coola Legends
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
- Mik-A'pi Red Old Man
- 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
- 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 Wise Man Of Chief Mountain
- The Wolf-Man
- The Wonderful Bird
- 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