A collection of distinctive Ute animal and human tales that offers a rich source of Ute culture for anyone interested in the peoples of the Great Basin.
Anne M. Smith (1900-1981) was the first woman to receive a doctorate degree from Yale. Author of Ethnography of the Northern Utes (1974), she is also the author of Shoshone Tales (1993).
Foreword Editor's Note Uinta Tales: The Mock Hunter The Council of the Bears Eye Juggler Ghost Robs Dove Porcupine Tricks Coyote The Man Who Visited Bear Water Boy Water Boy Wrestles with Tiger Siants The Rescue of the Captured Child Corn Lover Uncompahgre Tales: Coyote's Adventures Rabbit Tames Wood And Water Toad and Frog Frog and Coyote Race Ghost Robs Dove Coyote Learns to Fly Coyote Breaks a Bird's Leg Coyote Mistakes Louse for Buffalo The Lost Sisters Tarbaby Coyote and Skunk Coyote Tricked Bug and Lizard Bear Elopes with Mountain Lion's Wife Council on the Seasons The Corralled Buffalo Bald Eagle Coyote Imitates a Woman The Dog's Council Water Babies Why Mules Are Sterile The Cannibal Bird The Boy Who Visited His Grandfather The Fool Siants (1) Siants (2) Many-Heads White River Tales: Origin of Death Rabbit and Moon Cottontail Shoots the Sun Tricking an Enemy The Crows That Went Visiting The False Friend Frog and Eagle Coyote and the Berries The Hoodwinked Dancers The Buffalo Coyote and the Women Coyote Seeks a Name Trickster Marries His Daughter The Bungling Host Coyote's Brother Cured The Curious Man Winter's Wife Coyote's Adventures Bear Elopes with Mountain Lion's Wife Bear and Fly Porcupine's Adventures Council on the Seasons Mosquito Frog and Toad Theft of Fire Coyote Learns to Fly Coyote Becomes a Mother Bat The Dog Whose Wife Left Him Crow and His Wife, Dog Owl Woman and Skunk Owl's Widow Seeks a Husband Coyote Imitates Mountain Lion Water Babies (1) Water Babies (2) Water Babies (3) Water Babies (4) Water Babies (5) Water Babies (6) Historical Tale Siants (1) Siants (2) Siants (3) Siants (4) Siants (5) The Man Who Married a Cannibal The Cannibals The Supernatural Wife The Origin of Agriculture The Ragged Man Badger and Fly A Complicated Tale Lion The Woman and the Dog Coyote's Wife Lizard Hand Mythical Times True Story Another True Story The Captured Boy War Story Archup's Aunt History of the Utes How the Utes Got Land
"A handsome volume, well-illustrated with twenty period photographs, which serves its purpose by making Smith's Ute tales available to the general public."--Western Folklore "Both entertaining and educational. The publication of Ute Tales has filled an obvious void in Ute ethnographic literature."--Utah Historical Quarterly "Worthwhile for student and interested novice alike."--Publishers Weekly "A rich, fascinating selection of American Indian narratives."-- Choice Magazine
