Author : John Reed Swanton
Release : 1995
Genre : Social Science
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Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians write by John Reed Swanton. This book was released on 1995. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1929, John R. Swanton’s Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians stands as the largest collection of Muskhogean oral traditions ever published. Included are stores on the origin of corn and tobacco, the deeds of ancient native heroes, visits to the world of the dead, and encounters between people and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. Animal tales abound, especially those on the southeastern trickster Rabbit.