Primary Sources

The Girl Who Was the Ring is a Pawnee legend committed to writing by the anthropologist George Bird Grinnell (l. 1849-1938...

"Give me liberty or give me death!” is the closing line from a speech made by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia...

Falling Star is a Cheyenne tale of the great hero Hotoketana'ohtse ("Falling Star") who came from the heavens to stand up for those...

The Origin of Medicine is a Cherokee story on the theme of balance and respect told from the point of view of the animals...

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering, political cartoon attributed...

The Sioux who Married the Crow Chief's Daughter is a legend of the Lakota Sioux about Chief Big Eagle...