Native American Mythology

by Hartley Burr Alexander

Book Overview

This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.
The stories begin in the far North, among Norsemen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486444155
• ISBN13: 9780486444154
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"