Research Catalog

Title

Children of the sun : stories by and about Indian kids / [edited by] Adolf and Beverly Hungry Wolf.

Publication

New York : W. Morrow, c1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hungry Wolf, Beverly.
• Hungrywolf, Adolf, 1944-
• Werner, Honi.

Description

203 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Historical narratives describe the traditions, cultures, and experiences of native Americans growing up during the early 1900's. Includes Indian stories and legends.

Subject

• Indian children > North America
• Indians of North America > Folklore
• Indians of North America

Genre/Form

Folklore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- A child is born. Winnebago birthing, naming and adoption -- Red leggings and more adoption -- Growing up outdoors. Young hunter of Picuris -- Training of a flathead girl -- Omaha care and training of children -- Ancestral embers -- Initiations to tribal mysteries. How children recieve blessings -- A Winnebago boy's initiation -- Poor wolf joins a Hidatsa boy's society -- Daughters of Ponca chiefs -- A girl joins a Mandan women's society -- Fasting customs among Winnebago children -- Omaha ceremony to honor a young girl -- Children of the Iruska -- A Sioux boy as Heyoka -- Clowns among the crow tribe -- Hosteen Klah: boy medicine man of the Navaho -- Staying alive. My Indian grandmother -- An Omaha boy gets native doctoring -- A Hidatsa childhood in the 1860s -- Childhood quotes -- Goodbird is nearly drowned -- The Pawnee girl who saved a prisoner -- Riding a dog travois -- Games played by Omaha children -- A Taos schoolboy at home for the summer -- Finding a mate. Omaha marriage customs -- Winnebago marriage customs -- Sioux maiden's feast -- Hidatsa courting customs -- Courting at the corn harvest -- Courting in Sioux tipi camps -- Blackfoot tipi-creeping on the Canadian prairies -- Some childhood stories. A typical summer day for a Hidatsa boy -- Childhood memories of Willie Eagle Plume -- A debut of Aloyasius -- The return -- Little-Joe's back home -- The conversion of a dozen young Hopis -- Little Taos boy at a dance -- A 1950s child of the sun -- A sun dance child of the blackfeet -- Tales for the fireside. Manitoshaw, the hunting girl -- The poor turkey girl -- Coyote and the fawn's stars -- Coyote and crow -- Blackfoot legend of Napi and the great spirit -- Napi and the elk skull -- Napi makes buffalo laugh -- Origin of names among the cherokees -- Why the turkey is bald -- The simple happiness of a Navaho girl.

ISBN

0688067824

LCCN

^^^86018285^/AC

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library