Native American culture
What's new on our site today!Indigenous language
Native American culture
What's new on our site today!
This is our index of Alabama folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have organized our Native American tales section by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Alabama tribe, the traditional stories of related tribes like the Chickasaw and Creek are very similar.
Trickster Rabbit (Cokfi or Chokfi):
Rabbit is the trickster figure in the folklore of the Alabama and other Muskogean tribes.
Big Man-Eater (Atipa-Tcoba):
A giant cannibal monster common to southeastern Indian legends. Modern Alabama and Koasati people
identify them with elephants; some people believe Alabama stories about them may have been based
on fossils or prehistoric depictions of mammoths.
Atosee:
Mischievous little people of Alabama legend.
Alabama Myths and Tales: E-book of Swanton's 1929 collection of Alabama legends.
Origin of the Alabama Indians
Alabama Flood Legend
Rabbit Rescues the Sun
The Men Who Went To The Sky
Rabbit and the Orphan
Terrapin and the Wolves
The Celestial Canoe The Celestial Skiff: The Origin of Fire How Fire Came: Rabbit and Big Man-Eater The Adventures of Rabbit and Big Man Eater Rabbit and Big Man-Eater: Rabbit and the Turkeys:Myths and Folktales of the Alabama-Coushatta Indians of Texas:When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and other Indian Legends:Southeastern Native American Legends:
Back to American Indian animal spirits
Read some American Indian literature
Learn more about the Alabama-Coushatta.
Native American hair
Native American names
Lora's games
Native American tattoos
Would you like to help support our organization's work with endangered American Indian languages?
Contacts and FAQ page