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Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Katharine Berry Judson

Book Overview: 

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what culture it is from

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Then he went into the tree by a small hole at the bottom. But the heat and smoke were dreadful. The ground at the bottom of the tree was covered with hot ashes. The racer darted back and forth trying to get off the ashes, and at last managed to escape through the same hole by which he had entered. But his body had been burned black. Therefore he is now the black racer. And that is why the black racer darts around and doubles on his track as if trying to escape.

[Pg 30] Then great Blacksnake, “The Climber,” offered to go for fire. He was much larger than the black racer. Blacksnake swam over to the island and climbed up the tree on the outside, as the blacksnake always does, but when he put his head down into the hole the smoke choked him so that he fell into the burning stump. Before he could climb out, he, too, was burned black.

So the birds, and the animals, and the snakes held another council. The world was still very cold. There was. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Some pretty interesting stories. Most of them explain things like why deer have antlers, what causes thunder, or why swamps are wet, etc. Its fascinating to hear the mythological explanations of these things. There are some moralizing tales, but they are less common and the moralizing theme is subsi

I think it is very interesting to read Native American stories because many of them don't have the same structure that I am used to. Occasionally I'm tempted to ask "what's the point?", but usually the story is still very intriguing, maybe even more so because it doesn't do what I expect.