Description |
x pages, 1 leaf, 243 pages : color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates. ; 19 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Florence Stratton -- When the Storm God Rides -- How the North Wind Lost His Hair -- Kachina Brings the Spring -- The Sweet Gum's Amber Tears -- The Plant that Grows in Trees -- Why the Woodpecker Pecks -- The Woodpecker's Stumpy Tail -- Chief Two Hawks' Trail -- The Magnolia Babies -- Old Wooly Bird's Sacrifice -- A Tribe that Left Its Shore -- The Cloud that Was Lost -- The Swift Blue One -- The Wise Man's Big Bald Head -- Grandmother River's Trick -- Why Humming Birds Drink Only Dew -- When the Stars Took Root -- The Maiden Who Loved a Star -- Old Quanah's Gift -- How Sickness Entered the World -- The Evil Water Spirits -- Why the Irises Hold Hands -- The Pecan Tree's Best Friend -- When the Rainbow Was Torn -- Paisano, Hater of the Rattlesnake -- Maidens Who Broke a Drouth -- Why Arrows Have Feathers -- The Cottonwood Remembers -- Why the Skunk Walks Alone -- How the Turkey Hid Her Eggs -- Why the Dog's Earls Flop -- About the Tejas Indians -- Interesting Things to Do -- Indian Symbols |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
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Indians of North America -- Texas -- Folklore.
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Hasinai Indians -- Folklore.
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Genre/Form |
Folklore
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Folklore.
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Folklore.
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Author |
Reid, Bessie M
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Burrough, Berniece
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LC no. |
36013681 |
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