Description
Book SynopsisA collection of thirty traditional Hopi stories in English translation, about animals and their importance in Hopi culture. The narratives reveal attitudes toward important aspects of Hopi culture, such as courtship and relations between the sexes, friendship, courage, industry, healing, and the treatment of children.
Trade Review"These are stories of wry good humor, of wise and foolish animals and people, each with a kernel of wisdom."—
Multicultural ReviewTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Folklore and the Hopi Animal Tales The Tales 1The Man and the Ants 2 How Field Mouse Helped the People of Mishongnovi 3 Medicine Man Badger 4 How the Coyotes Celebrated the Bean Dance 5 The Firefly 6 The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Medicine Man 7 The Mistreated Cats 8 Coyote and Bee 9 The Chipmunk Girls Who Ground Pinyon Nuts 10 The Flood at Wuukopaqlo 11 Crow and Hawk 12 Coyote and the Ducks 13 How the Ants Initiated Their Children into the Kachina Society 14 How the Hopis Got Fire 15 How Coyote Became Infatuated with Girls 16 The Cicadas and the Serpents 17 The House Mice and the Boy from Huk'ovi 18 Coyote and the Lice 19 The Deer Mice 20 How Mockingbird Took a Wife 21 The Owl That Made Off with a Little Child 22 How Coyote and Hummingbird Satirized Bat in a Song 23 How Weasel Befriended the Moon 24 Sand Cricket 25 Why the Pocket Mice Staged a Dance 26 Coyote and Badger as Food Robbers 27 The Crying Cicada 28 The Gambling Boy Who Married a Bear Girl 29 The Antelope Kids 30 Wren and Bullsnake Appendix I: Glossary Appendix II: The Hopi Alphabet
