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Bad medicine & good : tales of the Kiowas / by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye ; with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer

Catalog Data

Author:
Nye, Wilbur Sturtevant 1898-1970  Search this
Physical description:
291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Folklore
Place:
Texas
Date:
1962
©1962
Notes:
Includes index.
AIMMRC copy 39088013337084 is a gift from the Library of Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
NMAI copy 39088019862390 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.
Contents:
The medicine of kindness -- The medicine of peace -- Pipe men -- Black Bear becomes a chief -- The death of Nah-goey -- The T'au -- Buffalo medicine men -- Tribal medicine -- The medicine dance -- Is the tai-me keeper white? -- Without medicine -- How to catch an eagle -- The lost shield -- Santanta's shield -- Tay-bodal the surgeon -- A remarkable cure -- Tape-day-ah becomes a man -- God's gift -- Holding the buffalo -- A small boy proves his courage -- What happened to Mary Hamleton? -- White Horse catches a Navaho -- Stumbling Bear scalps a Ute -- Hau-vah-te and the owl -- The medicine horse -- The tender-skin raid -- Quitan's medicine fails -- Too young to die -- "I scalped a man once" -- Quanah at Adobe Walls -- He wouldn't listen -- The wrinkled-hand chase -- The mystery of Tehan -- From Tule Canyon to Palo Duro -- Dead man's medicine -- Woman on the warpath -- A prairie derby -- Big Bow's last warpath -- Meat for General Miles -- The red nose -- Underwater medicine -- The power of the witch doctor -- Evil medicine -- The stronger god
Summary:
Includes index. Stories by Kiowa Indians reveal their struggles adapting to their environment over the past three centuries.
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_263532