"Collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers'Program, a Depression-era works project, these are the stories of Norwegian and Swiss immigrants, Native American medicine men and storytellers, and pioneers with memories of the earliest days of settlement in the Old Northwest. In search of stories, legends, songs, and other scraps of traditional knowledge, researchers fanned out across Wisconsin and other states."

"The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world's oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Hero provides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures—from The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Beowulf to Native American and African tales. "

This challenging new book looks at the current reinvention of American Studies: a reinvention that, among other things, has put the whole issue of just what is American and what is American Studies into contention. The collection focuses, in particular, on American mythology. The editors themselves have written essays that examine the connections between mythologies of the United States and those of either classical European or Native American traditions. William Blazek considers Louise Erdrichs Love Medicine novels as chronicles combining Ojibwa mythology and contemporary U.S. culture in ways that reinvest a sense of mythic identity within a multicultural, postmodern America. Michael K Glendays analysis of Jayne Anne Phillips work and explores in it the contexts where myth and dream interact with each other. Betty Louise Bell is one of four essayists in this collection who focus their criticism on authors of Native American heritage. In the first part of Indians with Voices, Bell carefully argues that Roy Harvey Pearces seminal Native American studies text Savagism and Civilization fails to acknowledge its white elitist assumptions about what constitutes The American Mind and views Native Americans along a primitive-savage binary that helped to create a twentieth-century national mythos of innocence and destiny. Other essays include Christopher Brookemans study of the impact of Muhammad Ali on Norman Mailers non-fiction writing about heavyweight boxing.

"Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges 'wooden Indian' stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans' playing Indian, 'feminist Indian humor at home..."

"A volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment. "

"Based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research."

"Native American communities met the many challenges of the early twentieth century in ways
that defy easy categories of “progressive” or “traditional.” Indian people used many different
outlets, including cultural appeals to non-Indian audiences, to craft survival strategies. Natalie
Curtis’s The Indians’ Book (1907), a collection of Native music, art, and folklore, became one
of these outlets."

"Contains detailed information on the The Apsaroke, or Crows, The Hidatsa. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Contains detailed information on the The Pima, The Papago, The Qahatika, The Mohave, The Yuma, The Maricopa, The Walapai, Havasupai, The Apache Mohave, or Yavapai. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Contains detailed information on the The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"contains detailed information on the The Mandan, The Arikara, The Atsina. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Detailed information on the The Piegan, The Cheyenne, The Arapaho. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Detailed information on the The Yakima, The Klickitat, Salishan tribes of the interior, The Kutenai. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Contains detailed information on the The Nez Perces, Wallawalla, Umatilla, Cayuse, The Chinookan tribes. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Contains detailed information on the The Kwakiutl. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"contains detailed information on the The Nootka, The Haida. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."

"Contains detailed information on the Southern California - Shoshoneans, The Dieguenos, Plateau Shoshoneans, The Washo. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies."