American Indian Trickster Tales (1999)

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I love folklore, mythology, and trickster tales, so naturally I was pleased to read this book. The scope of tales and the people represented here are both wide, with surprising overlaps and repetitions of theme--for example, the many characters who "steal the sun," acting as Prometheus figures. I would have appreciated a map displaying the Pre-Columbian locations of the North American First Peoples, since some tales are effectively the same, and I'd like to know whether that was because of proximity or human nature. An appendix of tribes is provided, listing where a group of people lived and a few salient facts about them, but it's not the same.

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