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By John Reed Swanton

First released in 1929, John R. Swanton’s Myths and stories of the Southeastern Indians is a vintage of yank Indian folklore. in the course of the years 1908-1914 Swanton collected the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples residing in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and during this quantity he preserved greater than 300 stories of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians.Myths and stories of the Southeastern Indians stands because the biggest choice of Muskhogean oral traditions ever released. incorporated are shops at the beginning of corn and tobacco, the deeds of historical local heroes, visits to the realm of the useless, and encounters among humans and animals or supernatural beings in animal shape. Animal stories abound, specially these at the southeastern trickster Rabbit.

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Page xix Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 73. : Smithsonian Institution. Swanton, John Reed. 1928a. " Pp. 23472 in Forty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the Years 19241925. : Smithsonian Institution. Swanton, John Reed. 1928b. " Pp. 473672 in Forty-second Annual Report. Swanton, John Reed. 1928c. " Pp. 673726 in Forty-second Annual Report. Swanton, John Reed. 1928d. " Pp. 169273 in Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the Years 19261927.

How Rabbit got the widow's daughter (second version) 62 71. Rabbit fools Coyote (69) 63 72. Rabbit rides Wolf (61, 69, 71) 64 73. Rabbit rides Wolf (second version) (61, 71) 66 74. Rabbit rides Wolf (third version) (61) 67 75. The tar baby (63) 68 76. Rabbit deceives the other animals (72) 69 77. Rabbit escapes from the box (66) 70 78. Rabbit's imposition is detected 71 79. The flight to the tree (76) 72 80. Cow and Dog are discontented 73 81. The language of the animals 74 82. The origin of races 74 83.

The orphan and the origin of corn (4, 6) 10 7. The orphan and the origin of corn (second version) (4, 6) 13 8. The orphan and the origin of corn (third version) (6) 15 9. The only son and Rabbit (6) 17 10. The origin of tobacco (15) 19 11. The origin of tobacco (second version) (15) 19 12. The origin of tobacco (third version) (15) 19 13. Man-eater and the little girl (The magic flight) (9) 20 14. The water panther 21 15. How the alligator's nose was broken 22 16. Story of the bat (52) 23 17. The friendly dogs 23 18.

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