Publisher Description

A collection of distinctive Ute animal and human tales that offers a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin.

Author Biography

Anne M. Smith (1900-1981) was the first woman to receive a doctorate degree from Yale. Author of Ethnography of the Northern Utes (1974), she is also the author of Shoshone Tales (1993).

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Editor's Note
• Uinta Tales:
• The Mock Hunter
• The Council of the Bears
• Eye Juggler
• Ghost Robs Dove
• Porcupine Tricks Coyote
• The Man Who Visited Bear
• Water Boy
• Water Boy Wrestles with Tiger
• Siants
• The Rescue of the Captured Child
• Corn Lover
• Uncompahgre Tales:
• Coyote's Adventures
• Rabbit Tames Wood And Water
• Toad and Frog
• Frog and Coyote Race
• Ghost Robs Dove
• Coyote Learns to Fly
• Coyote Breaks a Bird's Leg
• Coyote Mistakes Louse for Buffalo
• The Lost Sisters
• Tarbaby
• Coyote and Skunk
• Coyote Tricked Bug and Lizard
• Bear Elopes with Mountain Lion's Wife
• Council on the Seasons
• The Corralled Buffalo
• Bald Eagle
• Coyote Imitates a Woman
• The Dog's Council
• Water Babies
• Why Mules Are Sterile
• The Cannibal Bird
• The Boy Who Visited His Grandfather
• The Fool
• Siants (1)
• Siants (2)
• Many-Heads
• White River Tales:
• Origin of Death
• Rabbit and Moon
• Cottontail Shoots the Sun
• Tricking an Enemy
• The Crows That Went Visiting
• The False Friend
• Frog and Eagle
• Coyote and the Berries
• The Hoodwinked Dancers
• The Buffalo
• Coyote and the Women
• Coyote Seeks a Name
• Trickster Marries His Daughter
• The Bungling Host
• Coyote's Brother Cured
• The Curious Man
• Winter's Wife
• Coyote's Adventures
• Bear Elopes with Mountain Lion's Wife
• Bear and Fly
• Porcupine's Adventures
• Council on the Seasons
• Mosquito
• Frog and Toad
• Theft of Fire
• Coyote Learns to Fly
• Coyote Becomes a Mother
• Bat
• The Dog Whose Wife Left Him
• Crow and His Wife, Dog
• Owl Woman and Skunk
• Owl's Widow Seeks a Husband
• Coyote Imitates Mountain Lion
• Water Babies (1)
• Water Babies (2)
• Water Babies (3)
• Water Babies (4)
• Water Babies (5)
• Water Babies (6)
• Historical Tale
• Siants (1)
• Siants (2)
• Siants (3)
• Siants (4)
• Siants (5)
• The Man Who Married a Cannibal
• The Cannibals
• The Supernatural Wife
• The Origin of Agriculture
• The Ragged Man
• Badger and Fly
• A Complicated Tale
• Lion
• The Woman and the Dog
• Coyote's Wife
• Lizard Hand
• Mythical Times
• True Story
• Another True Story
• The Captured Boy
• War Story
• Archup's Aunt
• History of the Utes
• How the Utes Got Land

Review

"A handsome volume, well-illustrated with twenty period photographs, which serves its purpose by making Smith's Ute tales available to the general public."--Western Folklore

"Both entertaining and educational. The publication of Ute Tales has filled an obvious void in Ute ethnographic literature."--Utah Historical Quarterly

"Worthwhile for student and interested novice alike."--Publishers Weekly

"A rich, fascinating selection of American Indian narratives."-- Choice Magazine

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"Worthwhile for student and interested novice alike."-- Publishers Weekly

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