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A Collection of Yukon River Indian Legends - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=14707 Small e-text collection of tales.

Aadizookaanag -- Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths - http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/myths.html Essay on Indian legends as cultural property, with links to authentic sources of folktales.

Bladder-Head Boy - http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm A Kaska legend recalling the now-extinct woolly mammoth.

Canku Ota: Stories Index - http://www.turtletrack.org/CO_Indices/CO_Index_Story.htm Archive of native legends and folktales published in this Indian cultural newsletter.

Eldrbarry's Raven Tales - http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/rvn.htm Collection of Indian legends from the Pacific Northwest.

First People Legends - http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html Online collection of more than 1300 tales from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Indian Legends - http://www.indianlegend.com Tribal index of Native American stories. With links and a discussion forum.

Indian Story and Song from North America - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=07363 Nineteenth-century collection of native legends by Alice Fletcher.

Indian Why Stories - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-new?id=LinIndi&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed Frank Linderman's 1915 compilation of various native legends and tales.

Native American Literature - http://www.indigenouspeople.net/natlit.htm Repository for legends and traditional stories from hundreds of tribes.

Native American Lore - http://home.online.no/~arnfin/native/lore/index0.htm Index of Indian legends by title and theme.

Native American Stories - http://www.angelfire.com/ia2/stories3/ Collection of Indian legends, mostly unattributed, from various tribal traditions.

Native American Trickster Tales - http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/coyote.html Four texts from different tribal traditions, with introduction and links.

Nevada Native Story-Telling - http://www.unr.edu/nnap/NT/st-1.htm Several Paiute and Shoshone legends, with lesson plans for using them in the classroom.

Piasa Bird Legend - http://www.illinoishistory.com/piasabird.html The fictional Illinois "Indian" legend of the Piasa Bird, and the explanation of its true origins (a white fictionwriter invented it in the 19th century).

Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans - http://www.ibiblio.org/storytelling/ Lumbee, Cherokee, and Occaneechi traditional storytelling and stories.

Tales from the Totems of the Hidery - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=06053 Nineteenth-century collection of Haida legends.

Tales of the North American Indians - http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai/ 1929 collection of Indian legends and stories.

The Children and the Hummingbird - http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=324&title=Spider+Woman+Stories&subtitle=&author=G.+M.+Mullett Excerpt from a book of Hopi legends.

The Ku Bird and the Walking Stone - http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=161&title=Yaqui+Myths+and+Legends&subtitle=&author=Ruth+Warner+Giddings Two tales excerpted from a book of Yaqui myths.

The Legend of Eagleman - http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/catalogs/dlg_show_excerpt.php?id=423&title=Pima+Indian+Legends&subtitle=&author=Anna+Moore+Shaw An excerpt from a collection of Pima Indian tales.

The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=14896 Nineteenth-century recounting of a Haida legend.

Zuñi Folk Tales - http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/zuni/zft/ Frank Hamilton Cushing's 1901 collection of legends and stories.

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