Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

A second volume gathers Indigenous North American legends and origin myths, presenting creation accounts, animal and spirit tales, and regional traditions. It recounts cosmogonic episodes and transformation stories—including chappewee figures, hunters, and ancestral birds—alongside narratives of courtship, division of kin, funeral rites, visions, and explanations for landscape features such as caverns and sacred mountains. Regional strands from Nanticoke, Winnebago, and Abnaki traditions appear, as do tales of phantom women and local spirits. The collection blends mythic cosmology with episodic folk narrative, preserving oral texture while offering etiological and moral motifs tied to place.