English, Department of
Date of this Version
1979
Abstract
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface ..................................... ix
I. The Creation .................................. 1
II. When Man Came to the Earth .................... .4
III. The Bringing to the Creation of a New Life ........... 5
IV. The Osage Creation Story ........................ 7
V. The Child is Placed in the Cosmos, in the Tribe, and in the Tribe's Fight .............. 9
VI. The Sacred Pole ............................... 15
VII. The Divisions of the Tribe and Colors .............. 19
VIII. Corn ....................................... 22
IX. The Buffalo Hunt ............................. 27
X. Ponca Buffalo Ritual (related) ................... .46
XI. The Corn Song
XII. Another Osage Creation Story .................... 53
XIII. The Omaha Creation Hymn ...................... 60
The Bedtime Stories
The Sun and the Moon ..................... 62
The Rabbit Stories
Rabbit and the Winter. ..................... 62
Rabbit and the Sun ........................ 64
Rabbit and He-For-Whom-They-Shoot-The-Deer. .65
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