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Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians

Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians

by John Wesley Powell

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Author
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Title
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
Credits
Produced by Thomas Strong, Carlo Traverso, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
Language
English
LoC Class
E011: History: America: America
Subject
Indian mythology -- North America
Category
Text
eBook-No.
21033
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21033
Release Date
April 11, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. — J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR. — SKETCH — OF THE — MYTHOLOGY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. — BY
  2. 2.J. W. POWELL.
  3. 3.NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. — BY J. W. POWELL. — THE GENESIS OF PHILOSOPHY. — TWO GRAND STAGES OF PHILOSOPHY. — MYTHOLOGIC PHILOSOPHY HAS FOUR STAGES. — OUTGROWTH FROM MYTHOLOGIC PHILOSOPHY. — THE COURSE OF EVOLUTION IN MYTHOLOGIC PHILOSOPHY. — MYTHIC TALES. — THE CĬN-AÚ-ÄV BROTHERS DISCUSS MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE TO THE PEOPLE. — ORIGIN OF THE ECHO. — THE SÓ-KS WAĺ-N-ÄTS. — TA-VWOTS' HAS A FIGHT WITH THE SUN. — FOOTNOTES: — INDEX

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