Legends and Stories from the Past

Zitkala-Sas 1921 collection mixing Sioux legends with autobiographical sketches of her life on the Yankton reservation and at boarding school. One of the earliest published works by a Native American woman writer.

Zitkala-Sa

Mabel Powers 1917 collection of twenty-seven Iroquois teaching stories about animals, the land, and the origins of customs, gathered from the Senecas who adopted her and named her Yeh sen noh wehs.

Mabel Powers

Daniel Brintons 1882 comparative study of the hero-myth tradition across Native American religions, examining Quetzalcoatl, Itzamna, Wiochon, and Manabozho as expressions of a shared symbolic structure.

Daniel G. Brinton

An 1891 anthology of North American Indian folk tales gathering creation stories, trickster cycles, and animal fables from the Algonquin, Chippewa, and other northern nations into a single volume of the Folk-Lore and Legends series.

J. B. Lippincott Company

A short collection of Pacific Northwest Indigenous legends about salmon and the Coyote trickster, drawn from Clackamas Chinook and other Columbia River traditions.

US Forest Service