HAWM 2:2 : Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas

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Historical Atlas of World Mythology:
Volume 2: The Way of the Seeded Earth
Part 2 : Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Agricultural Origins In the New World

Two Agricultural Systems

• Map 1: The Three Agricultural Matrices
• Map 15: Two Agricultural Systems of the New World

From Nomadism to Seed Gardening

• Map 16: Early Formative Settlements in the Americas

North American Agriculturalist Rites and Myths

The Northeast Woodland

• Map 17: The Iroquois and Algonquian: Languages and Distribution
• The Iroquois
• Of the Longhouse and the Wigwam
• The Sacrifice of the White Dog
• Sun God and Great Spirit
• The Revelation to Handsome Lake
• The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
• The Legend of the Twin Heroes
• Commentary on The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
• The Algonquians
• Historical Introduction
• Map 18: North American Language Phyla
• The Indian in the North American Conscience
• Schoolcraft's Surprising Discovery of a Native American Oral Literature
• Tales of the Northeast Woodland
• The Folktale, in Contradistinction to Myth
• Foreward to the Algonquian Tales
• The Algonquian Tales
• Tales of the Montagnais and Naskapi
• Abnaki Tales: Of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot
• Tales of the Northern And Central Algonquians
• The Iroquois Tales
• Map 19: The Six Nations in 1771
• Iroquois Tales Commentary
• Map 20: Territories of the People of the Longhouse in 1720

The Southeast

• Map 21: Southeastern Tribes: Languages and Distribution
• The People of the Trail of Tears
• The Removal of the Cherokee
• Map 22: The Trail of Tears: John Burnett and the Cherokee
• The Heritage of Ham
• Ponce de Leon, de Soto, La Salle, and John Smith
• The Natchez Solar Dynasty and Extinction
• From a Letter of the Jesuit Father Le Petit
• The "Five Civilized Tribes"
• The Black Drink and the New Fire
• The Tuscarora and the Cherokee
• Map 23: Mississippian Culture Area and Influences
• The Removals
• Map 24: Removals of the Indians of Southeastern North America
• Bright Eyes, Standing Bear, and Judge Dundy's Decision, April 18. 1879
• The Origin of Maize and Game
• Map 25: Historical Range of North American Indian Tribes

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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