Saynday's People: The Kiowa Indians and the Stories They Told

by Alice Marriott

Book Overview

Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a combination of trickster and hero peculiar to Asiatic and American Indian mythology. He could do almost anything when he was using his medicine power for good, but Saynday was a great joker and when playing tricks often got what was coming to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803251254
• ISBN13: 9780803251250
• Release Date: October 1963
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great find

I was given this book by my grandmother, years ago. In the years since, I have lost it and just casually looked for it from time to time. I am so happy to find it and ordered immediately! This is my tribe and my stories.