Tribal Mythology and Folklore. North America. The Great Plains. Part 1 (Cultural Heritage Series Book 3)

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In this volume: over 350 stories and articles from 12 essential works of ethnology, many of them digitized for the first time, covering the Arapaho, Arikara, Atsina , Cheyenne and Comanche traditions.

The Cultural Heritage Series contains a number of volumes dealing with the mythology and folklore of native peoples on every populated continent. The mythology of ancient and medieval civilizations of Europe, Middle East, India, America and Asia is also represented in this series, in its own distinctive collection.

Each volume is, in fact, a carefully constructed anthology of the best stories published in famous journals as The Journal of American Folklore, the Bulletins and the Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology, or the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, containing also selected chapters from those monographs where the original studies on these traditions were printed for the first time.

The task of the editor was to identify, select and organize the relevant texts and, more importantly, to simplify the spelling and the critical apparatus, retaining only those explanatory notes meaningful for the passionate but non-professional reader. The notes were embedded in the text, enclosed in square brackets and italicized.

The purpose of the Cultural Heritage Series is to offer a comprehensive collection of texts on the subject of mythology and folklore organized by geographical region, culture and historical period.