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First published in 1929, John R. Swanton’s Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians is a classic of American Indian folklore. During the years 1908-1914 Swanton gathered the myths and legends of the descendants of Muckhogean-speaking peoples living in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, and in this volume he preserved more than three hundred tales of the Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Koasati, and Natchez Indians.Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians stands as the largest collection of Muskhogean oral traditions ever published. Included are stores on the origin of corn and tobacco, the deeds of ancient native heroes, visits to the world of the dead, and encounters between people and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. Animal tales abound, especially those on the southeastern trickster Rabbit.

This is a massive study of the myths and legends of the Tlingit, Native Americans of southern Alaska. These texts include a lengthly cycle of stories about Raven, the trickster figure of the Northwest, the equivalent of the better known Coyote of the Southwest. Another major thread that runs through these stories is the typical Northwestern preoccupation with wealth and status. The land was abundant with marine life, wildlife and other resources. The Tlingit, along with other cultures in the region, had developed a very high level of material wealth, as well as levels of social inequality not found elsewhere in North America. For this reason, many of the stories are parallel to European folklore (without being derivative in the slightest way), in which a low-status person achieves wealth and respect by supernatural intervention or a series of epic trials.On the other hand, the Tlingit were also avid believers in the Potlatch system, by which wealth was distributed by the rich at festivals, in order to reinforce their status. Hence there are also stories in this collection in which altruism and sharing wealth are rewarded.Usually in 19th century ethnographies the texts are presented without any clue as to the cultural context in which they were told. This collection diverges from this sometimes maddening practice. The function of stories is often described in an footnote by the informant, for instance, as fables for young people. In another instance at the end of the book the myth cycle is retold, woven into a grieving ceremony. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)About the AuthorJohn Reed Swanton (1873 - 1958)John Reed Swanton (19 February 1873 - 2 May 1958) was an American anthropologist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United

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John Reed (1887 – 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, "Ten Days That Shook the World." After World War I began Reed went to Central Europe as a war corresponddent in 1915, a journey on which he was accompanied by Canadian artist and frequent Masses contributor Boardman Robinson. Traveling from Thessaloniki, they met scenes of profound devastation in Serbia and they were arrested, incarcerated for several weeks and liable to be shot for espionage. These wartime experiences led to Reed's book, "The War in Eastern Europe", published in 1916.With splendid descriptive power, enthusiasm, and sympathetic understanding he takes us back of the scenes and shows us the poignant tragedy of the war in the Balkans, in Russian Poland.Like so many other promising young American writers. John Reed hastened to Europe at the outbreak of the war. Circumstances altered his plans, for he just grazed the 'front.' Fortunately he made the most of his disappointment. By studying the normal life of the Eastern natives under the strain of long-drawnout warfare, after they had settled down to 'war as a business,' he was able to write a book which is a unique contribution to present-day war history.Mr Reed takes the reader thru poor typhus-ridden Serbia, into floundering Russia, then back to Rumania and Bulgaria. With fine sympathy and understanding he pictures the abjectness as well as the splendid qualities of patriotism and hospitality of the Serbian peasant. He scalds Russia with burning indignation for her blundering inefficiency and almost unbelievable brutality to the Jews and towards alien races.Thruout the book one notices a tendency towards the dramatic, which Mr Reed accomplishes with the finesse of an artist. The War in Eastern Europe is decidedly worth reading. In literary quality, for one thing, it is much above the flood of 'war literature' that had deluged the reading public of his time.Reed writes: "As I look back on it all, it seems to me that the most important thing to know about the war is how the different peoples live; their environment, tradition, and the revealing things they do and say. In time of peace, many human qualities are covered up which come to the surface in a sharp crisis; but on the other hand, much of personal and racial quality is submerged in time of great public stress. And in this book Robinson and I have simply tried to give our impressions of human beings as we found them in the countries of Eastern Europe, from April to October, 1915."ContentsI. THE COUNTRY OF DEATHII. THE WAR CAPITALIII. TOWARD THE FRONTIV. BELGRADE UNDER THE AUSTRIAN GUNSV. ALONG THE BATTLE-LINEVI. A NATION EXTERMINATEDVII. RUSSIA'S BACK DOORVIII. BREAKING INTO BUCOVINAIX. ZALEZCHIK THE TERRIBLEX. BEHIND THE RUSSIAN RETREATXI. LEMBERG BEFORE THE GERMANS CAMEXII. AN OPTIMISTIC PILGRIMAGEXIII. THE FACE OF RUSSIAXIV. PETROGRAD AND MOSCOWXV. TOWARD THE CITY OF EMPERORSXVI. CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER THE GERMANSXVII. THE HEART OF STAMBOULXVIII. RUMANIA IN DIFFICULTIESXIX. BULGERIA GOES TO WARXX. SERBIA REVISITED

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But after all I waded the river one day and went up into the town. Luckily, I did not meet General Orozco. No one seemed to object to my entrance. All the sentries I saw were taking a siesta on the shady side of adobe walls. But almost immediately I encountered a courteous officer named Hernandez, to whom I explained that I wished to see General Mercado.Without inquiring as to my identity, he scowled, folded his arms, and burst out:"I am General Orozco's chief of staff, and I will not take you to see General Mercado!"I said nothing. In a few minutes he explained:"General Orozco hates General Mercado! He does not deign to go to General Mercado's cuartel, and General Mercado does not dare to come to General Orozco's cuartel! He is a coward. He ran away from Tierra Blanca, and then he ran away from Chihuahua!""What other Generals don't you like?" I asked.He caught himself and slanted an angry look at me, and then grinned:"Quien sabe....?"I saw General Mercado, a fat, pathetic, worried, undecided little man, who blubbered and blustered a long tale about how the United States army had come across the river and helped Villa to win the battle of Tierra Blanca.The white, dusty streets of the town, piled high with filth and fodder, the ancient windowless church with its three enormous Spanish bells hanging on a rack outside and a cloud of blue incense crawling out of the black doorway, where the women camp followers of the army prayed for victory day and night, lay in hot, breathless sun. Five times had Ojinaga been lost and taken. Hardly a house that had a roof, and all the walls gaped with cannon-shot. In these bare, gutted rooms lived the soldiers, their women, their horses, their chickens and pigs, raided from the surrounding country. Guns were stacked in the corners, saddles piled in the dust. The soldiers were in rags; scarcely one possessed a complete uniform. They squatted around little fires in their doorways, boiling corn-husks and dried meat. They were almost starving.- Taken from "Insurgent Mexico" written by John Reed

Excerpt from Myths and Tales of the Southeastern IndiansThe greater part of the accompanying material was collected by the writer between the years 1908 and 1914. Among the Creek myths, however, are included most of those secured by W. O. Tuggle many years ago, the originals of which are preserved among the docu ments in the Bureau of American Ethnology. The rest were taken down at various places and from various persons, and for the most part in English, no systematic attempt having been made at what might,be called a Creek collection. The Alabama stories are from the Alabama Indians living in Polk County, Tex., and the Koasati stories from some of the same informants and from the Koasati near Kinder, La. The Hitchiti stories were Obtained from a few speakers of the Hitchiti language in the northern part of Seminole County, Okla., part of them having been recorded directly, while part were written down in the original by an Indian. The Natchez collection, so called, was secured from one Of the few remaining speakers of the ancient Natchez tongue residing near Braggs, Okla., a man named Watt Sam. This informant had drawn not merely upon his own people but upon his Cherokee and Creek neighbors, and it would now be impossible to say how much of the collection is pure Natchez, or, indeed, whether any of it may be so denominated. These stories and those from the Hitchiti, Koasati, and Alabama were also recorded in text form.No attempt has been made to separate these stories into classes, but the following general order has been Observed. Stories which deal with natural phenomena or the doings of ancient native heroes, such as might more properly be called myths, have been placed first. Next have been entered stories of visits to the world Of the dead, of which there are few, as it happens, except in the Alabama series. Then come stories detailing encounters between men and animals or supernatural beings in animal form. After these have been placed tales dealing with happenings among the animals, concluding with all of those having to do with the Southeastern trickster Rabbit. Then appear stories - or other stories - known to have been bor rowed from the whites or Negroes, or such as probably had such an origin, and at the end a few war tales of miscellaneous character.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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