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Title

Friends of thunder : folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees / Jack F. Kilpatrick, Anna G. Kilpatrick ; foreword by Robert J. Conley.

Author

Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick.

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts.
• Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts
• Conley, Robert J.

Description

xviii, 201 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of more than one hundred folktales told by seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokee Indians.

Alternative Title

Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees

Subject

• Cherokee Indians > Folklore
• Cherokee mythology
• Tales > Oklahoma

Genre/Form

• Folklore
• Folklore.

Note

• Originally published: Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, c1964.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Robert J. Conley -- "The Things They Told Long Ago" -- "When I Am Sitting Here Alone" -- The Yellow Mockingbird Desires to See Ice -- The Hummingbird and the Crane Race -- The Crane and the Hummingbird: Rivals -- Why the Possum's Tail Is Bare -- The Rabbit and the Terrapin Race -- The Terrapin and the Deer Race -- The Terrapin and the Fox Race -- The Crayfish and the Fox Race (I) -- The Fox and the Terrapin Race -- The Crayfish and the Fox Race (II) -- The Rabbit and His "Friend" -- Little Thief, Petit Larceny -- Why the Rabbit Steals -- The Rabbit, the Mink, and the Woodpecker -- The Deer Steals from the Rabbit -- The Rabbit Imitates the Bear -- The Buzzard Doctors the Rabbit (I) -- The Rabbit, the Bear, and the Buzzard -- The Buzzard Doctors the Rabbit (II) -- The Rabbit Dupes the Wolf -- Maneater Dupes the Fox -- The Rabbit Dupes the Fox -- The Rabbit Dupes the Wildcat -- The Rabbit and the Possum Dine on Turkey -- The Rabbit and the Image -- The Rabbit and the Bear -- Asudi on the Uk'ten' -- Doi on the Uk'ten' -- Yan'sa on the Uk'ten' -- The Slaying of an Uk'ten' -- The Hunter and the Uk'ten' -- The Rabbit and the Uk'ten' -- The Uk'ten' Caught with a Chain -- Thunder and the Uk'ten' (I) -- Thunder and the Uk'ten' (II) -- Thunder and the Uk'ten' (III) -- In Search of Stoneclad -- The Rabbit Destroys Flint -- Tseg'sgin' Destroys Flint -- Information on Tsuhl'gul' -- A Tale of the Tsunihl'gul' -- The Giant Lizard -- The Tlaniqu' and the Turtle -- The Little People of Standing Rock -- Yun'wulos' and the Little People -- Uwedasat' and the Little People -- The Little Person of Sugar Mountain -- An Encounter with the Little People -- A Tale of the Deer People -- The Little Person and the Hunter -- Tsugutsalala -- Tsegs'gin' Has a Race -- Tseg'sgin' Races the Chief -- The Fortunate Hunter -- Tseg'sgin' Goes Hunting -- Tseg'sgin' Gets a Woman -- Why the Hog's
• Tseg'sgin' Sells His Deer -- Tseg'sgin''s Fortunetelling Crow -- Tseg'sgin' Wins a Wife -- Tseg'sgin' Foils His Captors -- A Tseg'sgin' Saga -- The Sensitive Suitor -- The Disgruntled Diner -- The Inexperienced Owl -- The Unsuccessful Fiddler -- The Origin of Corn -- The Fisherman and the Gobbler -- Thunder and the Turtle -- Thunder Deputizes the Eagle -- Doi on Ahw'usti -- Asudi on Ahw'usti -- Gahno and Dalala (N.) Accuse Each Other of Witchcraft -- Conjuration for Healing a Burn -- Gahno and the Ravenmocker -- Doi on Satan -- The Seven Clans -- Doi on the Eastern Cherokees -- Asudi on Old-time Marriage -- On Terrapin-Shell Rattles -- On Rattlesnakes -- Asudi Remembers Famine and Strife -- Asudi on Dancing -- Asudi on the Times -- Asudi on Cherokee Prophecy -- Asudi on Fire and Medicine -- Asudi on Christianity -- The Marching Creeks -- The Prosperity of the Old Days -- The Lost Hunters -- Dalala (N.) Remembers Cherokee Bill -- A Legend of Cherokee Bill -- Asudi on Sequoyah.

ISBN

0806127228 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^94034098^

OCLC

• 31171060
• SCSB-10173212

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library