The Myths of the North American IndiansSpence, Lewis
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The Myths of the North American Indians
Spence, Lewis
Indian mythology -- North America; Indians of North America -- Folklore
KEWAWKQU'. A race of giants and magicians, in Algonquian myth;
conquered by Glooskap, 145
KICHAI. A tribe of the Caddoan stock, 28
KICKAPOOS. A tribe of the Algonquian stock, 25
KIDNAPPING by Indians, 36; a story of, 37-45
KIEHTAN. Beneficent Indian deity, 105
KING OF GRUBS. In the myth of the Thunderers, 222
KING OF RATTLESNAKES. The legend of, 248
KING PHILIP'S WAR, 30-31
KINGFISHER. A creative deity of the Sioux; Ictinike and, 271
KINGSBOROUGH, LORD. And the identity of the American aborigines, 3
KIOWA. An ethnic division of the American Indians; dwellings of, 48;
picture-writing records of, 77; the year of, 132
KITTANITOWIT. A manufactured name for the supreme Indian deity, 105
KOCH, DR. Prehistoric remains discovered by, 7
KODOYANPE. Principal deity of the Maidu, 123, 124
KOHL, J. G. On Indian face-painting, 59-62
KOKOMIKIS. The Moon-goddess, wife of the Sun-god; in the stories of
Scar-face, 199-204
KOLUSCHES. An ethnic division of the American Indians; customs of,
resemble those of Asiatic tribes, 10-11
KOOTENAY. An ethnic division of the American Indians; Coyote the
creative deity of, 124
KUM. A semi-subterranean lodge of the Maidu, 47
KUTOYIS (Drop of Blood). A hero in Algonquian myth; legends of, 212-216
L
LAKE SUPERIOR. Prehistoric remains discovered in district of, 8
LAND OF THE SUN. Indian abode of bliss, 127
LAND OF THE SUPERNATURAL PEOPLE. Region inhabited by a semi-divine
race, 129-130; in Chinook myth, 323-324, 327-332, 337-338
LANGUAGE. Resemblance between that of American and Asiatic tribes, 12;
the basis of ethnic classification of American tribes, 22
LEIF THE LUCKY. Legend of voyage of, to America, 14-15
LELAND, C. G. On Algonquian mythology, 143
LENI-LENÂPÉ. A tribe of the Algonquian stock; the _Wallum-Olum_ of,
77-78
LIGHTNING. Indian belief regarding, 111-112
LIPANS. A tribe of the Athapascan stock, 22
LITTLE DEER. Chief of the Deer tribe, in Cherokee myth. 249, 250
LITTLE MEN. Twin thunder-gods of the Cherokees, 126
LONE-DOG WINTER-COUNT. A picture-writing chronicle of the Dakota, 77
LONG HOUSE PEOPLE. A name applied to the Iroquois, 224, 227
LONGFELLOW, H. W. And the identity of Hiawatha, 223
LORD OF THE DEAD. Indian deity; the owl sometimes represented as the
attendant of, 112
LOUCHEUX. A division of the Tinneh stock; the myth of the moon-god of,
357-358
LOX, or LOKI. Algonquian deity, a reincarnation of Malsum, 143;
reminiscent of the Scandinavian Loki, 143; in the story of the Fairy
Wives, 174-175
LYELL, SIR CHARLES. On discovery of prehistoric remains, 7
M
MA-CON-A-QUA. The Indian name of Frances Slocum, 44
MADOC. Legend of, 4
MAIDU. A Californian tribe; dwellings of, 47; creation-myth of, 123;
Coyote and Kodoyanpe deities of, 123; the seasons of, 133
MAIZE. Chippeway story of the origin of, 180-182
MAKER-OF-THE-THICK-SEA-MIST. Haida deity; in the story of
Master-carpenter and South-east, 318
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