Navaho Indian Myths

by Aileen O'Bryan

Book Overview

Rich compilation of Navaho origin and creation myths, recorded directly from a tribal elder: "The Creation of the Sun and Moon," "The Maiden who Became a Bear," and many more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486275922
• ISBN13: 9780486275925
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Accurate Myths

I purchased this book because even Navajo people use it as a resource book. The myths are accurate and provide a good background into the culture. A must read for those of you looking for adventures in reading other cultural myths and legends.

Interesting Culture and Dunamic & Creative People

This book is very enlighting on the myths and belifs of the American Idian and their cultural beliefs.A very dynamic people and culture that has survived a long enduring time of trials. The "white man" taking over their lands and alienating them from the very soil they sewed for hundreds of years.Mystical beliefs, omens and the rverence of the people in their communities and how everyone was imprtant to the whole. THis is book is a beautiful example of what makes the Native American people so special, unique and strong. Read it!

Authentic and Poetic

In 1928, Aileen O'Bryan recorded the narration of Sandoval, Hastin Tlo'tsi hee (Old Man Buffalo Grass), then "first chief of the four chiefs of the Navaho People." His nephew Sam Ahkeah acted as interpreter. This book was originally published in 1956 as "The Dine: Origin Myths of the Navaho Indians," by the U.S. Government Printing Office, as Bulletin 163 of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. As this transcription is both authentic and poetic, I recommend it to the general reader as well as the scholar.