Primary Sources

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...

Mondamin (also given as Mon-Daw-Min, The Gift of Corn, and The Origin of Corn) is a tale from the Ojibwe Nation on how the people received...

A newspaper clipping from the Boston Gazette reporting on the funeral of four of the victims of the...