Indian Mythology

Assiniboin Mythology

 

As might have been expected from the linguistic and geographical affiliations of the Assiniboine, their mythology is of a composite type. For comparative purposes, it seems best to consider the trickster cycle separately from the other tales. Read more...

Trickster3 Cycle
(Listed by Number only)

1.4
2.3
3.5
4.2
5.3
6.1
7.1
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9
10.1

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Miscellaneous Tales
When there is more than one version of a story, they may be Omaha, Ojibwa, Menomini, Fox, Gros Ventre, Arapaho, Dakota, Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Osage, Pawnee, Cheyenne

Teze'xnin (4 stories)
The Poor Boy
The Orphan Brother and Sister (3 stories)
The Deserted Children
The Two Brothers
The Underground Journey (2 stories)
Potiphar (3 stories)
The Son-in-law Tests (2 stories)
The Evil Parents-In-Law
Adventures Of Two Boys
The Lecherous Sister (2 stories)
The Witch
The Giants
The Old Husband and the Young Lover (2 stories)
Lodge-Boy and Thrown-Away's Father
The Thunder-Bird (2 stories)
The Women Who Married Stars
Ball-Girl
Morning-Star
Seven Stars
The Dipper
The Bear Woman (2 stories)
Burr-Woman
The Snake Man (2 stories)
The Aw-Elbow Witches
The Comrades' Pranks (2 stories)
Sharpened-Leg
The Magic Springs
The Buffaloes' Ward
The Buffalo Boy
The Grizzly And His Ward
The Grateful Bear
The Young Bear
The Bear-Wife (2 stories)
Snake and Bear Woman
The Beaver-Man (2 stories)
The Piqued Buffalo-Wife (2 stories)
The Wolf-Wife
The Antelope-Woman
The Red Hawk And The Black Hawk
Frog
The Crane And The Otter
Wi'skedidi'n
The Loon And The Bald-Headed Eagle
The Wolverene And The Wolves
Skunk
The Blind Dupe
The False Comrade
The Wakan' Girl
The Bad Wife
The Woman Stolen by the Buffalo
The Abducted Wife
The Reformed Adulteress
The Game Thief
The Meeting in a Cave
The Gambling Contests
Equus Stuprator
Canis Stuprator
Two Hunters
The Goose and her Lover
Mentula Loquens
The Punished Lover's Revenge
Big-Frog
The Badger
A Hunting Adventure
The Horse-Thief
The White Buffalo
The Four Trappers
The Rivals
The Bear And The Buffalo
Snow
The Offended Feet
Two-Faces
First Meeting With The Cree
First Meeting With Whites (2 stories)
The Punitive Expedition (2 stories)
War Tales

3 Called Inkton'mi or Sitcan'-yuckin' by the Assiniboine, Inkton'mi or Sitcan'-yuckin' by the Stoneys.

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Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History, 1909

 

 

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