Bear Mother
Haida argillite carving, c. 1890, depicting a folktale in which the Bear Mother endures a cesarean birth; in the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Haye Center, Smithsonian Institution, New York City.
Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
literature
Also known as: American Indian literature, Native American literature, Native American mythologies(Show More)
Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the traditional oral and written literatures and mythological traditions of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Mesoamerica as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths, and oral histories that were transmitted for centuries by storytellers and that live on in the language works of many contemporary Indigenous American writers. For a further discussion of the literature of the...
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