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General
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson [1929]
Walam Olum excerpt from The Lenâpé and Their Legends, by Samuel G. Brinton. Brinton's Library of Aboriginal Literature number V. Phildelphia [1885]
The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman [1911]
Indian Why Stories by Frank Linderman [1915]
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa [1901]
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin [1916]
Californian Indians
Religion of the Indians of California by A. L. Kroeber. University of California Publications in American Ethnography and Ethnology (UCPAAE) Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 319-356. [1907]
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Compiled and edited by Katherine Berry Judson. [1912]
Additional books for the Californian Indians
Indian Myths Of South Central California. By A. L. Kroeber. UCPAAE Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 167-250. [1907]
Myths of the Miwok By Edward Winslow Gifford. UCPAAE Vol. 12, No. 8, pp. 283-338. [1917]
The Dawn of the World Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan [Miwok] Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam [1910]
Maidu Texts by Roland B. Dixon, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, vol. IV [1912]
Hupa Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. UCPAAE Vol. 1 No. 2 [1904]
Yana Texts by Edward Sapir UCPAAE Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-235. [1910]
Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales and Achomawi Myths by Roland B. Dixon JAFL Vol. 22, no. 81, pp. 159-77 [1908] and JAFL Vol. 23, no. 85, pp. 283-7 [1909]
Chinigchinich by Friar Geronimo Boscana; tr. by Alfred Robinson; [1846]
The Mythology of the Diegeņos by Constance Goddard Du Bois, The Journal of American Folk-Lore (JAFL) Vol. XIV, No. 54, pp. 181-5 [1901]
A Saboba Origin-Myth by George Wharton James; JAFL Vol. XV, No. 61, pp. 36-9 [1902]
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot by George Wharton James; JAFL Vol. XVI, No. 62, pp. 153-9 [1903]
The Story of the Chaup; A Myth of the Diegueņos by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 67 pp. 217-42 [1904]
Mythology of the Mission Indians by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL Vol. XVII, No. 66. p.. 185-8 [1904]; Vol. XIX. No. 72 pp. 52-60 and 73. pp. 145-64. [1906]
Two Myths of the Mission Indians by A. L. Kroeber; JAFL Vol. XIX, No. 75 pp. 309-21 [1906]
Ceremonies and Traditions of the Diegueņo Indians by Constance Goddard Du Bois; JAFL XXI, No. 82 pp. 228-36 [1908]
Inuit
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo by Henry Rink [1875]
Eskimo Folk-tales collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster [1921]
Plains Indians
Jicarilla Apache Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard. [1911]
The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota. by J. R. Walker. [1917]
Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche [1889]
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa [1901]
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin [1916]
Iroquois
The Code of Handsome Lake by Arther C. Parker [1913]
The Iroquois Book of Rites by H.E. Hale [1883]
Northwestern
Coos Texts by Leo Frachtenberg. [1913] (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. I.)
Chinook Texts by Franz Boas. [1894] (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no 20.)
Kwakiutl Tales by Franz Boas. [1910] (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. II.)
Haida Songs by John R. Swanton. [1912] (Publications of the American Ethnological Society Volume III, Part 1.)
Tsimshian Texts (Nass River Dialect) by Franz Boas. [1902] (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 27.)
Tsimshian Texts (New Series) by Franz Boas. [1912] (Publications of the American Ethnological Society Volume III, Part 2.)
Tlingit Myths and Texts by John R. Swanton. [1909] (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin no. 39.)
Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians by Amy Lowell [1920]
Southeastern Indian
Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians by John R. Swanton. [1929] (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, No. 88.)
Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee by James Mooney [1891]
Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney [1900]
The Cherokee Ball Play by James Mooney [1890]
Southwestern Indians
Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians by Aileen O'Bryan
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony by Washington Matthews [1887]
Navaho Myths, Prayers, and Songs by Washington Matthews (UCPAAE 5:2) [1906]
Traditions of the Hopi by H.R. Voth, Field Columbian Museum Anthropogical Publication Vol. VIII. [1905]
Truth of a Hopi by Edmund Nequatewa, [1936]
Table of Zuņi Sounds
Introduction to Zuņi Ceremonialism by Ruth Bunzel
Zuņi Origin Myths by Ruth Bunzel
Zuņi Ritual Poetry by Ruth Bunzel
Zuņi Folk Tales by Frank Cushing[1901]
Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pima) by J. William Lloyd [1911]
