Saynday's People

The Kiowa Indians and the Stories They Told

Alice Marriott

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University of Nebraska Press
01 August 1963

History; Indigenous peoples

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Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a combination of trickster and hero peculiar to Asiatic and American Indian mythology. He could do almost anything when he was using his medicine power for good, but Saynday was a great joker and when playing tricks often got what was coming to him. Indians on Horseback is both a history of the Kiowas and a vivid account of their way of life. The narrative is enriched not only by detailed descriptions of how these first Americans made moccasins and cradles, thread and arrows and tipis, but also by a Plains Indian cookbook which includes recipes for such dishes as pemmican and stone-boiled buffalo.

By: Alice Marriott
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 289g
ISBN: 9780803251250
ISBN 10: 0803251254
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 01 August 1963
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active