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Not indigenous but trying to locate a book of cultural tales.
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Hi, first off apologies. I read this book over 30 years ago. Iā€™m just trying to narrow down tribal affiliations in hopes of finding it.

It was filled with folktales/creation stories but here is what I can remember (Google was not helpful)

One story involved two sisters (that may have been made of corn?) and through the events became the moon and the sun. I may have this backward. I think there were several stories about corn.

There was also a story of an old woman who kept talking birds in her basket and they turned into a beautiful woman.

Also a story about a man married to a river or stream.

I know this isnā€™t much and for all I know it may not have even been an accurate folklore. But I read it in the late 1980s and it was older then.

The title was ā€œtribe name storiesā€ but alas itā€™s gone.

Edit: found it

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/navaho-stories-in-basic-vocabulary-a-dolch-basic-book/8396956/

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