E-book Category: History, Medicine E-book Title: Tales of the North American Indian Author: Stith Thompson Book Description: 1st Published: 1929, 299 pages
"Tales of the North American Indian" is a classic cross-cultural Native American Indian folklore study, and one of the finest works of its type.
Thompson was one of the world's leading authorities on folklore. Born in 1885, he went on to become a Distinguished Professor of English and Folklore at Indiana University.
He drew on a wide range of early ethnographic literature when writing this book, and his efforts put the study of folklore in the United States on a solid, scholarly basis. This work contains some 100 myths from dozens of tribes... a "must read!"
