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Arctic and Sub-Arctic
Southeast
- Snowbird (Wicked) has collected a number of Tsalagi Myths and Legends among her pages on Tsalagi (Cherokee) culture.
- The Cherokee Messenger provides James Mooney's telling of the Origin of Disease and Medicine. This tells of the grievances of animals against man and the Plants' alliance with man.
- J. C. High Eagle tells the Cherokee Tale of the Rooster's Tail - a story of dancing, pride, and astronomical objects.
- Ken Masters's Cherokee Images site opens with a story of how Old Woman Spider (A-ga-yv-li-ge) developed the first piece of pottery.
- Cherokees of California present a collection of eleven tales of Cherokees Mythology.
- George Lankford recounts this Creek story of Flying Rats - a tale of a ball game between bats and birds.
Northeast
- In 1898, Simon Pokagon, an Algonquin from Michigan, set down some Indian Superstitions and Legends.
- The Menomini Indians are native to what is now Northeastern Wisconsin. Their language is from the Algonquin family. Here are collected seven tales.
- The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) are the six nations of Seneca, Cayuga, Onodaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscorora - mostly located in what is now New York and Pennsylvania. Their home page's culture section reflects current religious beliefs and answers the question What is the Haudenosaunee Concept of Creation?
- The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Legend of Onarga
- The Lightning Valley Village storyteller tells over a dozen Lenape Stories (Broken Link 10/10/00)
- Jason Belanger presents a collection of Mi'kMaq Legendsand corresponding images from tapestries, both written and designed by Michael Francis. Many of these tales feature Glooscap
Northwest
- Ellen Furlong Cripsen recounts the Umpqua story of The Mountain with a Hole in the Top about the volcano at Crater Lake, Oregon.
- Bigfoot Legends gathered from Native American sources.
- Cougar Trading Post collects a small number of Chinook and Tillamook Native American Myths and Legends.
- Amy Lowell retells the story of Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians based on the Kathlamet legend, in a journal article from 1920.
- The Kathlamet Tale of Creation is retold in brief as part of a page for the 1996 British Columbia Eco-Challenge race.
- Raven Mythology collects a handful of legends involving Raven, including three creation stories. Most of these hail from northwest and sub-arctic groups.
- This site on on Alaskan & Pacific Northwest art tells the Tlingit tale of Natsilane and the Killer Whale
- The Tlingit Culure page includes four tales of Tlingit legend.
Great Plains
- Marie L. McLaughlin collected Myths and Legends of the Sioux completing her collection around 1913.
- Old Indian Legends of Iktomi, Iya, and others; from the Dakotas, retold by Zitkata-Sa.
- Paula Giese retells the Lakota story of how "White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings First Pipe" based on the version by Joseph Chasing Horse.
- Richard L. Dieterle has compiled The Short Encyclopaedia of Hotcâk Myth, Legend, and Folklore. In addition to containing a number of articles on the subject, Dieterle retells dozens of Hotcâk (Winnebago) stories. The Hotcâgara are from the central and southern portions of what is now eastern Wisconsin.
- Lady Pixel presents this page on Native American Legends, Folk Tales and Stories, which currently features tales from the Siksikawa (Blackfeet) and Kiowa tribes.
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