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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions.
Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature.
The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.
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David Guynn
reviewed Traditional narratives of the Arikara Indians on April 05, 2015 Traditional narratives of the Arikara Indians
An all-time favorite. Beautiful art, a well-told story, and great themes.
At its most literal, this story is about subsistence hunting and the importance of respecting animals, and your relationship to them. You can also read it metaphorically, as concerning the need to take care of our environment more generally. At its most general, it is a cautionary tale about a darker side within us, and what may happen if we succumb to it.
Here are some photos of Temlaham:
The first reminds us that this story is a kind of response to a prior period during which Temlaham was a kind of paradise.
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