Primary Sources

How the Rabbit Lost His Tail is a Sioux legend, part origin myth and part didactic tale, explaining why the rabbit looks...

Black Elk Speaks (1932) is the popular and controversial book of the narrative by the Oglala Lakota Sioux medicine man...

The Origin of Game and Corn is a Cherokee origin myth explaining how wild game first began to run free and corn came...

The Wise Man of Chief Mountain is an origin story of the Blackfeet nation explaining how they came to wear brightly...

Of the many first-person accounts of the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, the report...

The Ghost Dance (Spirit Dance) is an expression of rebirth and renewal using the traditional Native American circle dance, first practiced...