Native Languages of the Americas: Pueblo Legends and Traditional Stories
This is our collection of links to Pueblo folktales and traditional stories that can be read online.
We have indexed our Native American folklore 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 Pueblo tribes, the traditional stories of
related tribes like the
Hopi and Zuni are very similar.
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˜Kokopelli. This is the best-known of the Pueblo kachina spirits,
a fertility spirit usually appearing as a well-endowed humpbacked man. Kokopelli is the Hopi name for him, though it is commonly used by the Pueblo Indians
as well. Other Pueblo names for him are Nepokwa'i or Nepokwai'i, .
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Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories:
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