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Imagine ourselves richly : mythic narratives of North American Indians / Christopher Vecsey.

Title: Imagine ourselves richly : mythic narratives of North American Indians / Christopher Vecsey.
Author: Vecsey, Christopher.
Publication: New York : Crossroad, 1988.

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Description

xii, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Studies the major mythological traditions of Native Americans, including Hopis, Ojibwas, Iroquois, Navajos, Creeks, and peyote religion, using myth analysis to understand the identities, survival methods, and spirituality of Native American people"--Amazon.com.

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Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 233-293.

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Contents

Mythography -- The emergence and maintenance of the Hopi people / written with Carol Ann Lorenz -- The Ojibwa creation myth / written with John F. Fisher -- The story and structure of the Iroquois Confederacy -- A Navajo heroic -- An American Indian monomyth: narratives of Peyote's origin -- The genesis of Phillip Deere's sweat lodge.

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0824508785 :

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^^^88015065^

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Harvard Library