Indian legends / by J.W. Lesueur, Mesa, Arizona

Author:: Lesueur, James W.
Published:: Independence, Jackson County, Missouri : Zion's Printing and Publishing Company, [1928]
Copyright Date:: ©1928
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (339 pages, 54 leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits

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Indigenous Peoples of North America

Contents:

Legends of the origin, migrations, and wars of the Indians -- Creation stories of various tribes -- Traditions of the great deluge -- Legends of the great tower and the confusion of tongues -- Religious customs and beliefs of the American Indians -- Indian tradition of a god who visited them -- Legendary stories of strange white prophets who visited them -- Tradition of a lost sacred record of their people -- A comparison -- The Nephite record with the Indian legend -- Book of Mormon confirmation by these traditions -- Tragic Indian folk lore with many a moral lesson.

Subject(s):

Indian mythology

Note:

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

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