The girl who married a dog
A Cheyenne Legend A chief had a fine-looking daughter. She had a great many admirers. At night she was visited by a young man, but she did not know who he was. She worried...
Category: Native Americans
The Ghost Dance – A Promise of Fulfillment
The Ghost Dance (Natdia) is a spiritual movement that came about in the late 1880s when conditions were bad on Indian reservations and Native Americans needed something to give them hope. Ghost Dance of the Sioux,...
The Appaloosa is also known as the Nez Perce Horse
The Appaloosa is a horse breed associated historically with the Nez Perce (Niimipu) Tribe. The name may originate from “a Palouse,” which referred to the region where the horses were bred. It is likely...
The Comanche Moon
There’s a reason why the full moon is still called “Comanche Moon” in Texas. The Comanche were notorious for their many raids, especially during a full moon, when under the cover of darkness, but still...
The Legend of Geronimo
Geronimo was born in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, June 1829, near Clifton, Arizona, from the Bedonkohe Apache tribe. He was named Goyathlay (One Who Yawns) the fourth in a family of four boys and four...
The legend of the jackalope
Sometimes it’s hard to separate myth from mundane. And sometimes the two become so intertwined that the “facts” are almost impossible to discern. Perhaps it’s that the human mind needs the fantasy of something...
The Scary Untold Story Of Crazy Horse
Short Bio Crazy Horse was a Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota tribe, born around 1840 in what is now known as South Dakota. His birth name was Cha-O-Ha, but he was...
The Legend of the Dreamcatcher
A Chippewa Legend A spider was quietly spinning his web in his own space. It was beside the sleeping space of Nokomis, the grandmother. Each day, Nokomis watched the spider at work, quietly spinning...
The Legend of the White Horse Plain
An Assiniboin | Cree | Sioux Legend The Legend of the White Horse Plain by Margaret Arnett MacLeod Manitoba Pageant, January 1958, Volume 3, Number 2 This article was published originally in Manitoba Pageant...
The legend of the thunderbird
Bolts of lightning were said to shoot from the eyes of the Thunderbird and claps of thunder to come from the movement of his wings. Fierce and strong, the Thunderbird brought the storms and...
