Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

Authentic Dene oral traditions retold by elder George Blondin and developed as a Dene Kede teaching resource. Covers medicine power, twin heroes, and Northern Indigenous storytelling.

George Blondin

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

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