Blackfoot lodge tales / / George Bird Grinnell

• Autore: Grinnell George Bird <1849-1938.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Siksika Indians; Indians of North America - Great Plains; Tales - Great Plains
• Classificazione: YAF024000YAF069000
• Note generali: "As published in 1892."; Originally published: Blackfoot lodge tales: the story of a prairie people. aNew York: Scribner, 1892.
• Nota di contenuto: BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES THE STORY OF A PRAIRIE PEOPLE -- CONTENTS -- NOTE -- INDIANS AND THEIR STORIES -- STORIES OF ADVENTURE -- THE PEACE WITH THE SNAKES -- THE LOST WOMAN -- ADVENTURES OF BULL TURNS ROUND -- KUTÓYIS -- THE BAD WIFE -- THE LOST CHILDREN -- MIK-A'P I-RED OLD MAN -- HEAVY COLLAR AND THE GHOST WOMAN -- THE WOLF MAN -- THE FAST RUNNERS -- TWO WAR TRAILS -- STORIES OF ANCIENT TIMES -- SCARFACE -- ORIGIN OF THE I -KUN-UH' -KAH-TSI -- ORIGIN OF THE MEDICINE PIPE -- THE BEAVER MEDICINE -- THE BUFFALO ROCK -- ORIGIN OF THE WORM PIPE -- THE GHOSTS' BUFFALO -- STORIES OF OLD MAN -- THE BLACKFOOT GENESIS -- THE DOG AND THE STICK -- THE BEARS -- THE WONDERFUL BIRD -- THE RACE -- THE BAD WEAPONS -- THE ELK -- OLD MAN DOCTORS -- THE ROCK -- THE THEFT FROM THE SUN -- THE FOX -- OLD MAN AND THE LYNX -- THE STORY OF THE THREE TRIBES. -- THE PAST AND THE PRESENT -- DAILY LIFE AND CUSTOMS -- HOW THE BLACKFOOT LIVED -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- HUNTING -- THE BLACKFOOT IN WAR -- RELIGION -- MEDICINE PIPES AND HEALING -- THE BLACKFOOT OF TODAY -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: Grinnell presents as the first half of his book thirty stories of the Blackfeet, recorded as they were told to him-stories of war an adventure, ancient times, natural phenomena, origins of social customs, and tales of creation and the Creator. The remainder of the book deals with the history of the Blackfeet, their daily life and customs, tribal organization, and religion.
• Titolo autorizzato: Blackfoot lodge tales
• ISBN: 1-58218-505-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969940803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II