Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-240) and index.
Introduction : Different tribes, different monsters -- Part I. Storytelling. Caddoan storytellers and storytelling traditions -- Part II. Oral traditions as history. "The whirlwind is coming to destroy my people" : smallpox and the Arikaras -- "The spiders who recovered the chief's grandson" : a Wichita tale of encounters with the Spanish and French in Texas -- Death of the flint monster : a Skiri Pawnee story of post-contact warfare -- The old man with the iron-nosed mask : Caddo oral tradition and the De Soto Expedition, 1541-42 -- Part III. Oral traditions and ethnohistorical analysis. From "monster" to savior : scalped men, Pahukatawa, and the Pawnee trauma of genocide -- Conclusion : "We na netsu ut" (Now the gut passes).
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Examines how the creatures found in the stories of the Caddos, Wichitas, Pawnees, and Arikaras embody specific historical events and the negative effects of European contact--Provided by publisher.
Caddoan Indians-- Folklore.
Monsters, Folklore.
Oral tradition-- North America.
Caddo
Caddoan Indians-- First contact with Europeans.
Folklore and history.
HISTORY / Native American.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Kolonialismus
LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American.
Monsters.
Mündliche Überlieferung
Oral tradition.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.