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Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story & Origin of the Animals
The Jicarilla-Apache Creation Story and Origin of the Animals are two origin myths of the Jicarilla-Apache...
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Coyote Tales of the Shasta Nation
The Coyote tales come from the Shasta people who originally inhabited the regions of modern-day northern California...
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Kiowa Death-Origin Myth: Two Versions
The Kiowa nation has at least two different versions of their origin myth concerning death: How Death Came into...
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How Death Came into the World (Modoc Legend)
How Death Came into the World is a legend of the Modoc nation whose ancestral lands once covered the region...
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Saynday Tales
Saynday tales are popular legends of the Kiowa nation featuring the trickster figure Saynday who, like other Native American tricksters...
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Herodotus on Burial in Egypt
Herodotus' section of his Histories on burial in ancient Egypt (Book II.85-90) is an accurate description of Egyptian...
