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	Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans - http://www.ibiblio.org/storytelling/ Lumbee, Cherokee, and Occaneechi traditional storytelling and stories.
	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.
	Tales of the North American Indians - http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/tnai/ 1929 collection of Indian legends and stories.
	Native American Trickster Tales - http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/coyote.html Four texts from different tribal traditions, with introduction and links.
	Bladder-Head Boy - http://www.folklore.bc.ca/Bladderheadboy.htm A Kaska legend recalling the now-extinct woolly mammoth.

	Eldrbarry's Raven Tales - http://www.eldrbarry.net/rabb/rvn/rvn.htm Collection of Indian legends from the Pacific Northwest.
	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.
	Zuñi Folk Tales - http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/zuni/zft/ Frank Hamilton Cushing's 1901 collection of legends and stories.
	Indian Legends - http://www.indianlegend.com Tribal index of Native American stories. With links and a discussion forum.
	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.

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

	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 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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	Tales from the Totems of the Hidery - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=06053 Nineteenth-century collection of Haida legends.
	A Collection of Yukon River Indian Legends - http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=6ab6b8ffba&doc=14707 Small e-text collection of tales.

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