Retells legends from the traditions of the Pueblo Indians

Ways of Indian Wisdom: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Pijoan, Teresa

Vanetten, Teresa

United States

Sunstone Pr

A collection of thirty-seven transformation myths collected from the oral traditions of Native Americans, showing the powers of certain animals as they move between human and nonhuman worlds.

White Wolf Woman: Native American Transformation Myths

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

August House Pub Inc

Book by Pijoan, Teresa, Bailey, Ray

Healers on the Mountain/and Other Myths of Native American Medicine: Traditional Native American Stories for Cleansing, Healing, Testing, and Preserv

Bailey, Ray

Anyone interested in mythology and legends will enjoy these stories which have been passed down orally for generations by the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. They reveal Pueblo customs and traditions as well as the ceremonial aspects of Pueblo religion. A character called Grandfather, the fictional narrator of these stories, embodies the collective wisdom of the Pueblo Indians, the attitudes about universal dilemmas and conflicts in human life that developed through many generations. Some of the stories are realistic; others involve the supernatural. Some evoke the initial contact between the pueblos and the Spanish conquistadors. There are also tales of the joy and bitterness of interactions between parents and children, husbands and wives, and humans and spirits. Rites of passage and "vision quests" often enter into the characters' attempts to live in harmony with nature, other humans, and spirits. Lessons on how to live, of growing up, marrying, parenting, and growing old sometimes emerge straightforwardly in these stories, but more often, readers are left to draw their own conclusions. These stories, collected by Teresa Pijoan since she was eight years old, actually came from many different storytellers, some of them childhood friends of the author. She had heard several versions of each story before writing it down and she often used elements from one version to fill in the parts missing from other versions. She then showed her drafts of each story to members of several different pueblos and weighed their comments before putting each story in its present form.

Pueblo Indian Wisdom: Native American Legends and Mythology

Sunstone Press

Native American Creation Stories of Family and Friendship: Stories Retold

A collection of stories based on life in traditional communities in northern New Mexico

LA cuentista

Children's Books

Red Crane Books

In every religion, culture, and language, the spirits of the dark side are as real as the spirits of the light. The simple sorrow of everyday life can trigger a visit from an evil spirit. These are stories of the foreboding beings and presences who exist just outside our consciousness.

Stories from a Dark and Evil World

Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books

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