Dance

Big Sur Natives - Dance and percussion group located in Big Sur California.

Dustyn Medicine Wolf - Traditional Native American dance and music performances, history, stories, and personal artwork.

Native Nations Dance Theater - Upcoming Native American Indian events, photos, news, trading post & store, educational dance presentations for K-12, organizations and clubs.

The Northern Shadow Dancers - A first nations dance troupe from Northern British Columbia. These representatives of native culture have performed in Europe.

Red Earth Dances - Site sponsored by Powersource, a definition page on the dance "styles" of Native America.

Tlanextli Aztec Dancers - Indigenous, traditional dancers from Tacuba (Tlacopan), Mexico City. Offers colorful pictures of the group in full dress and calendar of related events.

Yellow Bird Productions - Authentic Native American Dances including Apache and northern plains dances. Four-time World's Champion Teen Hoop Dancer, Tony Duncan.

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Film

Ableza - Native American Arts and Film Institute is dedicated to promoting, preserving and protecting traditional and contemporary arts by Native American Peoples. Site includes links to related areas American Mystery - PBS - Companion site for the movies of Tony Hillerman's Navajo police novels: Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and A Thief of Time. Includes a section about the Navajo nation and its lands as well as Hillerman's commentaries about them and the characters he created. Native Americans in Film and Television - Annotated Bibliography of Materials in the University of California, Berkeley Libraries Native Videos - Films and videos on the struggle of native peoples to preserve their land, heritage, culture and way of life; Narrated by Robert Redford and Joanne Woodward. NativeCelebs - Native American actors and other celebrities. Photos, bios, and interviews. Turtle Island Produictions - Métis-Ojibwe owned and operated video and web production company with an emphasis on Native American production and content. Waasa Inaabidaa/We Look In All Directions - Campion website for the Emmy winning 6-hour PBS documentary series about the history, and culture of the Ojibwe people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

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Folklore

Anishinabe

Algonquin Legends and Customs - Several traditional tribal stories and a song. How Dogs Came to the Indians - An Ojibwa legend. Indian Superstitions and Legends - Traditional tales and local stories of the Pokagan Algonquins. Legends - The Saga of Iyash, in English and Severn Ojibwe (Oji-Cree). Ojibwe Oral Tradition - Seventeen traditional stories from the Chippewa tribe. Waganakising Odawa Story Page - Three Ottawa Indian legends.

Apache

Apache Creation Legend - Traditional tribal myth. Apache Legend - Jicarilla story about the transmission of fire to humankind. Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts - 1938 collection of legends and traditional songs in Apache and English. The Jicarilla Genesis - The Southwest Indian creation myth cycle as recorded by James Mooney. Myths of the Jicarilla Apache - 1898 recording of several traditional legends. The Slaying of the Monsters - A traditional Indian legend with some cultural commentary Why the Bat Hangs Upside Down - A Lipan Apache legend.

Blackfoot

Blackfeet Creation Tale - Origin legend told by a tribal elder. Blackfeet Tales - Five Napi (Old Man) legends from the Piegan and Siksika tribes. How the Worm Pipe Came to the Blackfoot - A Siksika legend. Little Friend Coyote - Piegan legend about an escaped Kutenai captive. Native American Legends - Selection of Blackfeet and Kiowa tales.

Cherokee

Cherokee Legend - The story of how Opossum got his bare tail. Cherokee Legends - Traditional stories retold by Eastern Cherokee children. Cherokee Legends, Myths and Stories - Collection of tribal tales and oral history. Cherokee Myths And Legends - Essay discussing the tribe's oral tradition. Cherokee Stories - Archive of legends and traditional tales from an Indian cultural organization. Origin of Disease and Medicine - A traditional Tsalagi folktale. The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting - A Tsalagi legend recorded by James Mooney. Two Snipers Who Fancied Themselves Ducks - Article on two killers' use of an old Indian tale about a duck in a noose. Uktena - A traditional Indian story told by Appalachian storyteller Gary Carden.

Iroquois

Birch Bark Legends of Niagara - Nineteenth-century collection of Six Nations tales. De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha - Legends surrounding the historic Indian leaders Hiawatha and Dekanawida. Iroquois Confederacy Stories - Collection of traditional Haudenosaunee legends. Iroquois Myths and Legends - The Haudenosaunee creation myth and two Oneida tales. Legend of the Big Dipper - An unattributed Haudenosaunee tale. Seneca Indians: Stories and Legends - Traditional tales from the Seneca Nation.

Lenape

Looking Back: The Lenni-Lenape and The Red Record - Article endorsing the authenticity of the controversial "Red Record" (considered by others to be a hoax). Walam Olum - Excerpt from the controversial Delaware "Red Record" of Rafinesque. The Walam Olum of Constantine Rafinesque - Discussion of the Delaware Walam Olum and whether or not it was a forgery.

Navajo

Anasazi Diaspora - The fate of the ancient Anasazi as told by Dine artist Shonto Begay The Legend of Spider Rock - Spider Woman and the origin of Shiprock. The Navajo Creation Story - Unattributed recounting of the Diné origin myth. Noqoìlpi, the Gambler - Dine myth about a wager between Navajo and Pueblo gods Spider Woman - Story of the Dineh culture heroine. Story of the Two Brothers - Dine legend of Nayenezrani and Tobajischini, children of the sun.

Sioux

Camping With the Sioux - Folktales and corrupted Iktomi myths from the 1881 fieldwork diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher. Dahcotah, or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling - Scanned-in text of the 1818 collection of Dakota tradition. A Dakota Legend of Creation - Origin myth with a brief glossary of Siouan gods. Iktomi and Coyote - An annotated Dakota legend. Myths and Legends of the Sioux - Collection of tales from the author's Dakota grandmother. Old Indian Legends - Traditional stories from 20th-century Dakota author Zitkala-Sa. Wicoh'an Otehike - Lakota mythology, legends, and analysis.

Wabanaki

The Abenaki Perspective on Storytelling - Author Joseph Bruchac on his tribe's oral tradition. Three traditional folktales are also presented. Acacia Artisans: Stories and Facts - Penobscot legends and miscellaneous Indian oral history. The Algonquin Legends of New England - Charles Leland's rendition of various Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tales, including both native and non-native elements. Geow-lud-mo-sis-eg - A tale of magical little beings in Maliseet folklore. Malecite and Passamaquoddy Tales - Overview of the oral tradition, the Kluskap cycle, and folktales translated from the original Indian languages. Mi'kmaq Indian Cinderella and the Invisible One - Micmac-French fusion legend, with critical interpretation by an Ojibwe author. Of Glooskap's Birth - Deconstruction of a 19th-century folklorist's embellishments to the Glooskap myth cycle. Storytelling - Folktales of the Micmac and Maliseet Indians. Teachings from the Medicine Wheel - Five traditional stories in English, Micmac and Maliseet

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Literature

Cherokee

Native American Authors: Cherokee Tribe - Profiles and links about 47 different Cherokee authors. Tsalagi (Cherokee) Literature - Page includes about 10 traditional Cherokee stories, as well Uktena - A traditional Cherokee story told by Appalachian storyteller Gary Carden.

Myths

Aadizookaan - Traditional Stories, Legends, and Myths - Extensive collection of annotated links to traditional stories, myths, and legends from many different Native American Nations. The Encyclopedia of Hotcâk (Winnebago) Mythology - Articles, stories, and histories, edited and compiled by Richard L. Dieterle, with genealogies, bibliography, and links. Haliksai! This Is How It Was - Hopi myth excerpted from Harry C. James' book "Pages From Hopi History." Mamit Innuat: Innu Mythology - Overview from the website of the Innu Nation (formerly known as Montagnais or Naskapi) of Nitassinan (eastern Quebec and Labrador). Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians - By Amy Lowell (1920), e-text from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians - By Henry R. Schoolcraft (1856), e-text from Early Canadiana Online. The Myths of the New World: A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America - By Daniel G. Brinton (1868), e-text from Early Canadiana Online. Notes on Eskimo Traditions - Article by Harlan I. Smith (1893?), e-text from Early Canadiana Online. Storytelling: the Art of Knowledge - Stories from Canada's First Peoples: the Inuvialuit, the Algonquin, the Métis and Cree, the Nisga'a, the Abenaki and the Mi'kmaq Tales of the North American Indians - Anthologized by Stith Thompson (1929), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive. The Thunder-bird Amongst the Algonkins - Article by A. F. Chamberlain (1890?), e-text from Early Canadiana Online. Traditions of the Hopi - By H. R. Voth (1905), e-text from the Internet Sacred Text Archive. White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings the First Pipe - A Lakota myth as told by Joseph Chasing Horse. Yahoo! Groups: Native Ar - Native American mythology, folklore and stories.

Storytellers

Autumn Morning Star - Describes her storytelling and music. Includes biography, links, and calendar of her performances. Roy Peters - "Ha-ge-o-ta" (he who travels in story and song) tells how he, a non-native, learned to make flutes and music from a Great One.

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