Old Indian legends
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Author
Publication
1985 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
Language
English
Word Count
41,250 words, Guess
Page Count
165 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveoldindianlegend00zitkgoog
- Internet Archiveoldindianlegends0000zitk
- ISBN-100803249055
- ISBN-100803299036
- ISBN-139780803249059
and 7 more
- ISBN-139780803299030
- Goodreads2282584', '3193541
- LibraryThing739216
- Library of Congress Control Number85008639
- OCLC Control Number12104125
- Better World Books9780803299030
- Open LibraryOL3028166M
Classifications
- DDC398.2/08997
- LCCE99 .D1Z58 1985
- LCCE99.D1258 1985
Description
<p><i>Old Indian Legends</i> is a collection of Dakota legends, retold by the 19th and early 20th-century Dakota author <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/zitkala-sa">Zitkála-Šá</a>. The collection was compiled in 1901 when Zitkála-Šá returned to her birthplace in the Yankton reservation to take care of her mother, after she had spent several years in the assimilationist Indian residential school system, both as a student and as an educator. While taking care of her mother, she gathered traditional tales from Dakota storytellers which were retold in English for <i>Old Indian Legends</i>. The stories revolve around various spirits and heroes from Dakota myth, especially Iktomi, a shapeshifting spider trickster.</p>
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