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Benedicte Wrensted: Idaho Photographer in focus
In 1984, while researching photographs for the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians, Cohan Scherer found a collection of glass plate negatives at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. Labeled only as "Portraits of Indians from Southeastern Idaho Reservations, 1897," the images were so compelling that Scherer had prints made for the Handbook - a 20 vo lume encyclopedia summarizing the anthropology and history of Indians and Eskimos of North America north of Mesoamerica.
How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs
IN the beginning Chareya made fire (That is, the Cahrocs say so), Housed it safe with two beldams dire, And meant to have it stay so. But the Cahrocs declared that fire should be free, Not jealously kept under lock and key.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux	Sioux	US - West
McLaughlin, Marie L.. Myths and Legends of the Sioux / Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library/ Forgotten Ear Of Corn / Little Mice / Pet Rabbit / Pet Donkey / Rabbit And The Elk / Rabbit And The Grouse Girls / Faithful Lovers / Artichoke And The Muskrat / Rabbit And The Bear With The Flint Body / Lost Wife / Raccoon And The Crawfish / Legend Of Standing Rock / Peace Pipe / A Bashful Courtship / Simpleton's Wisdom / Little Brave And The Medicine Woman / Bound Children / Signs Of Corn / Rabbits / How The Rabbit Lost His Tail / Unktomi And The Arrowheads / Bear And The Rabbit Hunt Buffalo / Brave Who Went On The Warpath Alone And Won The Name Of The Lone Warrior / Sioux Who Married The Crow Chief's Daughter / Boy And The Turtles / Hermit, Or The Gift Of Corn / Mysterious Butte / Wonderful Turtle / Man And The Oak / Two Young Friends / Pet Crow / 'Wasna' (Pemmican) Man And The Unktomi (Spider) / Resuscitation Of The Only Daughter / Pet Crane / White Plume / Pretty Feathered Forehead / Four Brothers; Or Inyanhoksila (Stone Boy) / Unktomi (Spider), Two Widows, And The Red Plums
Old Indian Legends
Zitkala-Sa - These legends are relics of our country's once virgin soil. These and many others are the tales the little black-haired aborigine loved so much to hear beside the night fire. For him the personified elements and other spirits played in a vast world right around the center fire of the wigwam. Iktomi, the snare weaver, Iya, the Eater, and Old Double-Face are not wholly fanciful creatures. There were other worlds of legendary folk for the young aborigine, such as "The Star- Men of the Sky," "The Thunder Birds Blinking Zigzag Lightning," and "The Mysterious Spirits of Trees and Flowers." Under an open sky, nestling close to the earth, the old Dakota story-tellers have told me these legends. In both Dakotas, North and South, I have often listened to the same story told over again by a new story-teller. While I recognized such a legend without the least difficulty, I found the renderings varying.