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Monsters of contact : historical trauma in Caddoan oral traditions /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van de Logt, Mark, 1968- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Caddoan Indians > Folklore.
Monsters > Folklore.
Oral tradition > North America.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Different tribes, different monsters
  • Part I. Storytelling. Caddoan storytellers and storytelling traditions
  • Part II. Oral traditions as history. "The whirlwind is coming to destroy my people" : smallpox and the Arikaras
  • "The spiders who recovered the chief's grandson" : a Wichita tale of encounters with the Spanish and French in Texas
  • Death of the flint monster : a Skiri Pawnee story of post-contact warfare
  • The old man with the iron-nosed mask : Caddo oral tradition and the De Soto Expedition, 1541-42
  • Part III. Oral traditions and ethnohistorical analysis. From "monster" to savior : scalped men, Pahukatawa, and the Pawnee trauma of genocide
  • Conclusion : "We na netsu ut" (Now the gut passes).