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Allen Pinkham discusses the nature of the oral traditions and their importance Item Info

When we look at some of these stories and they talk about the legend-times, prior to the human beings even coming on earth. They have stories about the stars and the large animals; stories about the moon and the sun before the human beings. Even before that there was, how the earth came to be. Then you have the stories of creation. How the animals change from big animal people to small animal people, and how Coyote was created, and he was given all these powers, and then he created the human beings. He scattered all the remains of the monster that he slew in all the directions. And they became the Indians of the western hemisphere. And then Coyote traveled the world and this is where all the Coyote stories come from and start from. Some of those stories are preserved. And then once the human beings came here there was explanations of why human beings did certain things, or why the unknown was trying to be told in a logical way. This is what some of stories tell.

Title:
Allen Pinkham discusses the nature of the oral traditions and their importance
Date Created:
2001-11
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Allen Pinkham discusses the nature of the oral traditions and their importance. (Interviewed by Josiah Pinkhan in November 2001)
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"Allen Pinkham discusses the nature of the oral traditions and their importance", Nimíipuu L3, Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL)
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https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/nimiipuu-l3/items/nimiipuu-l3-189.html
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