The standard guide to the key myths, figures, and themes of Native American Mythology is now updated and includes a new Afterword.
Indian artworks illustrate the texts and samples of differing narrative styles add enrichment, as some of the world\'s purest and most powerful myths are made more accessible--and more meaningful--than ever before..
Detailed maps show tribal locations and the distribution of key stories.
Citing specific cases, he shows how new legislation and changing attitudes have provided a basis for bringing myth to the negotiating table and into the courtroom.
In a new Afterword, Bierhorst describes the recent impact of ancient myths in the arena of American Indian affairs and shows how Native Americans have successfully used Mythology as oral evidence to reclaim land rights and to repatriate grave goods.
First published in 1985, this indispensable guide has been updated to reflect the latest scholarship in Native studies.
In this wide-ranging volume, John Bierhorst carefully delineates eleven mythological regions--from the Arctic to the Southwest and from California to the East Coast--presenting the gods, heroes, and primary myths of each area.
Timeless in their basic structures, the continent\'s principal myths are now emerging as sacred histories that have contemporary significance.
The growing economic and political influence of Native American tribes has brought religious issues, once little noted, increasingly to the fore. 21 illustrations.
The standard guide to the key myths, figures, and themes of Native American Mythology is now updated and includes a new Afterword
