Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Social Science - 308 pages
Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie. They were originally published in 1918 in an Anthropological Paper by the American Museum of Natural History.

Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov. These concretely detailed accounts served the Crow Indians as entertainers, moral lessons, cultural records, and guides to the workings of the universe.

 

Contents

PREFACE
7
OLDMANCOYOTE CYCLE
13
HERO TALES
52
THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED WORMSINHISFACE
119
REDWOMAN AND FLINTLIKEYOUNGMAN
128
THE REFORMED IDLER
136
THE THUNDERBIRDS
144
TALES OF SUPERNATURAL PATRONS
152
5
36
THE TIDINGS BROUGHT TO THE VICEROY
53
A GENTLEMAN FROM SALAMANCA
62
A SCHOLAR FROM AUSTRIA
72
9
83
83
91
THE INTERLOPERS
111
305
305

MISCELLANEOUS TALES
204
THE GIANTS AND THEIR BUFFALO
216
THE DESERTED CHILDREN
222
THE SHAMAN WHO LOOKED FOR THE DROWNED CROW
231
THE MAN WHO RESCUED HIS BROTHERINLAW
239
THE SKEPTICAL HUSBAND
254
THE WOMAN WHO ESCAPED FROM THE ENEMY
268
BIBLIOGRAPHY
305
Part
1
2
9
4
19
Acknowledgments
74
99
107
7
115
19
128
28
152
158
165
3
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Robert H. Lowie studied anthropology with Franz Boas at Columbia University, did fieldwork among the western Indian tribes from 1906 to 1931, and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for three decades. His many publications include The Crow Indians and Indians of the Plains, available as Bison Books. Peter Nabokov, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the author of Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior (1982), also a Bison Book, and editor of Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian and White Relations from Prophecy to the Present(1991).

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