Many Native American cultures regarded bears as close relatives of people or as people wearing bear coats. A myth from the Northwest Coast region tells of Rhpisunt, a chief's daughter who met two young men while gathering berries. She went with them to the home of the bear chief and ...
Native American Legends While a Great Spirit constitutes the basis of Indian theory, the tribes believe in multiple deities surrounded by mythology. In accordance with their views of nature and spirit, they constantly appeal to these powers at every step of their lives. They hear the Great Spirit...
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Note:Native Americantotemsdid notinclude all of the animals listed below, as many of these creatures did not exist in North America or, in some cases, not at all (such as the unicorn.) However, the concept of “totems,” by whatever name they were called, has been known throughout the...
Native American Stories These "tales and narratives are from varied sources. Some are legends, some are true American Indian history, and some are just American Indian children's stories from long ago. Most are well over 50 years old and have not been "politically corrected" for today's chil...
The Central American land bridge has served as a passageway for animals and humans moving between North and South America. Nevertheless, after the first wa
Born in 1824, Johnson became one of the strange breed of wandering trappers and traders called mountain men in Western mythology, after he deserted from the US army during the Mexican-American War. In later years he served during the Civil War, worked in various law enforcement jobs around ...
The Avanyu symbol is one of the many snake-like deities that figure in the mythology of some Native American tribes, notably the Pueblo. Read more » Badger tracks Identifying animal tracks of the Badger indicates a need for us to deal with creative powers. ...
Native American literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths, and oral h
Considering himself a storyteller at heart, he’s even mastered several Indigenous American instruments (the hand drum, wooden flute, and the double wooden flute, to name a few) to aid his imaginative retellings of native American mythology. He also practices various martial arts and is an ...