Omaha Tribal Myths And Trickster Tales

ROGER L. WELSCH

Publication: Sage Books, Swallow Press, 1981, Chicago

First edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth, titles stamped in red on the spine, [10], 285 pp., introduction, illustrated, notes, bibliography. The Omaha Indians have a rich cultural heritage which has been passed on through story telling, and this book gathers together over seventy tribal stories collected from remote and diverse sources. These tales are about Trickster in his many guises -- Rabbit, Ichtinike, Coyote --,a strange mixture of hero and villain, helper and rogue, one who is brilliant and stupid. The tales are also about "Adventures and Culture Heroes," "The Animal World," "Animal and Man." "Creation and Origin," and "Other Tales." These tales, which were at the heart of Omaha life, reveal an infectious sense of humor and a strong feeling for powerful rhetoric. Fine, bright copy in a bright, lightly rubbed dust jacket with minor wear to the extremities.