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Choctaw Tales » (1st Edition)
Authors: Tom Mould (Editor), Chief Phillip Martin
ISBN-13: 9781578066834, ISBN-10: 1578066832
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Tom Mould
Book Synopsis
A treasury of tribal lore told by past and present Choctaw storytellers
Table of Contents
| Storytellers of the past | 3 | |
| Storytellers of the present | 15 | |
| Native terms | 40 | |
| Commentary and contextualization | 45 | |
| Patterns and performance | 53 | |
| A note on the texts | 57 | |
| The Choctaw creation legend | 64 | |
| Nane Chaha | 65 | |
| Men and grasshoppers | 65 | |
| Creation of the tribes | 66 | |
| Origin of the Crawfish Band | 67 | |
| The creation of the Choctaw | 68 | |
| The migration legend | 71 | |
| Migration | 72 | |
| A short story of the creation of the first man | 73 | |
| Tradition of the flood | 73 | |
| The flood | 75 | |
| Lightning and thunder | 76 | |
| The origin of corn | 77 | |
| Corn-finding myth | 77 | |
| Wild geese and the origin of corn | 78 | |
| The geese, the ducks, and water | 78 | |
| The life of dogs | 79 | |
| How the snakes acquired their poison | 80 | |
| The owl | 81 | |
| Tashka and Walo | 81 | |
| The hunter of the sun | 83 | |
| Yallofalaiya | 85 | |
| Nameless Choctaw | 88 | |
| The hunter and the alligator | 92 | |
| The girl and the devil | 97 | |
| The eagle story | 98 | |
| Skate'ne | 99 | |
| Hoklonote'she | 101 | |
| A story of Kashikanchak | 101 | |
| Kashikanchak | 103 | |
| The spectre and the hunter | 104 | |
| The hunter who became a deer | 107 | |
| The man who became a snake | 109 | |
| Half-horse, half-man | 112 | |
| Kashehotapalo | 113 | |
| Na Losa Falaya | 113 | |
| Manlike creature | 114 | |
| Okwa Nahollo - white people of the water | 115 | |
| Big pond | 116 | |
| The water Choctaw | 117 | |
| Pas Falaya | 117 | |
| Nishkin Chafa - one-eye | 121 | |
| Headless man | 123 | |
| The inhuman Na Losa Chitto | 123 | |
| The demon Na Losa Chitto | 124 | |
| A big hog | 125 | |
| Big black hairy monster | 126 | |
| The black stump | 127 | |
| The Choctaw Robin Goodfellow | 128 | |
| The floating light | 129 | |
| Lights | 131 | |
| Kowi Anukasha | 131 | |
| Medicine woman | 132 | |
| The little man | 133 | |
| Pile of rocks | 137 | |
| A witch | 139 | |
| Choctaw doctors | 140 | |
| Shape-changer | 141 | |
| The baseball game | 141 | |
| Dancing lights | 143 | |
| Hashok Okwa Hui'ga - dew drop (will-o-the-wisp) | 144 | |
| The blue light | 144 | |
| Disappearing lights | 145 | |
| The ghost | 146 | |
| Spirit of the dead | 146 | |
| Two brothers | 147 | |
| White men bring alcohol | 149 | |
| Fighting the Muskogees | 150 | |
| Crossing the line | 151 | |
| Death of Pushmataha | 153 | |
| Removal | 154 | |
| Sneaking back from Oklahoma | 155 | |
| Land swindling | 156 | |
| Grandfather's land | 156 | |
| Burning sticks | 157 | |
| Changing landscapes and intermarriage | 160 | |
| Planes, roads, and culture | 161 | |
| Intermarriage, roads, and changing seasons | 162 | |
| Changing world | 163 | |
| Electricity, plumbing, and social dancing | 165 | |
| Cars, roads, and changing values | 167 | |
| A great illness | 168 | |
| The third removal | 170 | |
| War | 172 | |
| Extinction | 172 | |
| End of the world | 173 | |
| Land getting old | 173 | |
| The car | 178 | |
| Running water | 179 | |
| Whatyousay | 180 | |
| Time to kill hogs | 180 | |
| The horse's egg | 181 | |
| The funeral | 182 | |
| The white cat | 183 | |
| The man and the turkey | 184 | |
| The dog who spoke Choctaw | 185 | |
| The trip to Arkansas | 187 | |
| Tall stories | 188 | |
| The lucky shot | 189 | |
| Help from above | 190 | |
| The ball game | 194 | |
| Race between the hummingbird and the crane | 195 | |
| The hummingbird | 196 | |
| The dove story | 196 | |
| How the Biskantak got water for the birds | 197 | |
| Why the buzzard has more offspring than the owl | 197 | |
| Why the guinea hen is speckled | 198 | |
| Boatmaker | 198 | |
| The hunters and the bears | 200 | |
| Rabbit and the bears | 200 | |
| How the bear lost his tail | 202 | |
| How the rabbit got a short tail | 202 | |
| How the bullfrog lost his horns | 203 | |
| How the alligator got his back | 204 | |
| Rabbit and turtle race | 205 | |
| Race between the turkey and the terrapin | 206 | |
| Turtle and turkey | 207 | |
| Why terrapins never get fat | 208 | |
| Turtle, turkey, and the ants | 209 | |
| Why there are seams in the terrapin's shell | 210 | |
| Why the turtle's shell is sewed up | 210 | |
| How the terrapin lost the ability to climb trees | 211 | |
| Raccoon and 'possum | 211 | |
| Possum and the coon | 212 | |
| The panther and the opossum | 213 | |
| Possum and the fox | 217 | |
| Why the rabbit's skin is loose | 218 | |
| Bear and rabbit | 219 | |
| How the rabbit fooled the turkeys | 219 | |
| Rabbit and fox farm together | 220 | |
| Rabbit rides wolf | 221 | |
| Rabbit gains a wife | 221 | |
| How rabbit made the animals angry | 223 | |
| Rabbit and the garden | 224 | |
| The Choctaw creation legend | 227 | |
| Lightning and thunder | 228 | |
| Corn-finding myth | 228 | |
| A story of Kashikanchak | 229 | |
| Kashikanchak | 230 | |
| The man who became a snake | 231 | |
| The big pond | 234 | |
| Pas Falaya | 235 | |
| The inhuman Na Losa Chitto | 238 | |
| The black stump | 238 | |
| Cars, roads, and changing values | 239 | |
| The funeral | 240 | |
| The dog who spoke Choctaw | 242 | |
| Help from above | 243 | |
| The dove story | 244 | |
| How the Biskantak got water for the birds | 245 |
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