At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors

Contents

Contents Illustrations | ix Acknowledgments | xi Introduction: Oral Narrative of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors | xiii 1. Iroquois Star Lore: What Does It Mean? | 1 2. War in the West: Nineteenth-Century Iroquois Legends of Conquest | 14 3. Killer Lizards, Eldritch Fish, and Horned Serpents | 43 4. Old Good Twin: Sky Holder During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 53 5. The Story of Windigo | 69 6. The Friendly Visitor: An Iroquois Stone Giant Goes Calling in Algonquian Country | 98 7. Mythic Imagery in Iroquoian Archaeology | 115 Afterword | 150 References | 155 Index | 183 ...