Kroeber. Gros Ventre Myths and Tales

Today's free book is Gros Ventre Myths and Tales by Alfred Kroeber (1907). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

1. The Making of the Earth
2. Origin Myth
3. Tebiaanta, the Two Women, the Bald Eagle, and Nixant
4. Nixant obtains Summer and the Buffalo
5. Nixant is taught to call Buffalo
6. Nixant and the Mouse
7. Nixant and the Mice's Sun-dance
8. Nixant eats Fat
9. Nixant eats Hiitceni
10. Nixant and the Bird with the Large Arrow
11. Nixant toses his Eyes
12. Nixant kills his Wife
13. Nixants and the Bear-Women
14. Nixant and the Dancing Ducks
15. Nixant Adventures
(a) With the Mice's Sun-dance
(5) With the Women who loused him
(c) With his Daughters
(d) With the Woman who crossed the River
(e) With the Sleeping Woman
(f) With the Buffalo he called and the Rabbit
16. One-eyed Owl and his Daughter
17. The Man who went to War with his Mother-in-Law
18. The Kit-fox and the Ghost
19. Found-in-the-Grass
20. Clotted-Blood
21. Moon-Child
22. The Boy who was raised by the Seven Bulls
23. White-Stone
24. The Women who married the Moon and a Buffalo
25. The Women who married a Star and a Buffalo
26. The Deserted Children
27. The Girl who became a Bear
28. Shell-Spitter
29. Yellow-Plume and Blue-Plume
30. The Swallows and the Snake
31. The Origin of the Tsooyanehi Degree of the Dog-dance
32. The Origin of the Chief Pipe
33. Separation of the Tribe
34. The Cave of the Buffalo
35. The Woman and the Black Dog
36. The Man born from a Horse
37. The Woman and the Horse
38. The Little Girl who was married by a Bear
39. The Young Man who became a Water-monster
40. The Woman who was recovered from a Water-monster
41. The Man who killed Hawks
42. The Man who was killed by a Bullet-hawk
43. The Man who was killed by a Bald Eagle
44. The Woman who tempted and betrayed her Brother-in-law
45. The Woman who tried to betray her Brother-in-law
46. The Bad Wife
47. The Man who acquired Invulnerability
48. The Man who recaptured his Wife
49. The Woman who married the Snake Indian
50. The Woman who revenged her Brothers