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Southwestern Native Americans |
This index has links to resources at Sacred-texts about the religion, mythology, folklore and spiritual practices of Native Americans of the desert Southwestern region.
The following tribes have their own indices:
The Delight Makers,
by Adolf F. Bandelier [1890]
An ethnographic novel of pre-columbian Pueblo life.
Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories,
by Charles F. Lummis [1910]
A classic retelling of Pueblo mythology by a pioneering
scholar of the Southwest region.
Tales of the Cochiti Indians,
by Ruth Benedict [1931]
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 98.
A ethnographic collection of folklore from one of the New Mexico
Pueblo groups, the Cochiti, by one of the greatest 20th century
anthropologists.
Dancing Gods,
by Erna Fergusson [1931, copyright not renewed]
This classic description of Southwestern ceremonialism is also
a great read.
Origin Myth of Acoma,
by Matthew W. Stirling [1942]
(Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 135)
A fascinating academic study of the Acoma Pueblo myth cycle.
The Tribes of the Thirty-Fifth Parallel
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XVII.--No. 100. [September 1858]
Aw-aw-tam Indian Nights (Myths and Legends of the Pima)
by J. William Lloyd [1911]
Folklore of the Pima, residents of the deserts of southern Arizona.
Yaqui Myths and Legends
by Ruth Warner Giddings [1959, copyright not registered or renewed]
A collection of tales of the Yaqui, who live on the coast of the Sonora
desert of Mexico.
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