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Old Indian legends
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<p><i>Old Indian Legends</i> is a collection of Dakota legends, retold by the 19th and early 20th-century Dakota author <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/zitkala-sa">Zitkála-Šá</a>. The collection was compiled in 1901 when Zitkála-Šá returned to her birthplace in the Yankton reservation to take care of her mother, after she had spent several years in the assimilationist Indian residential school system, both as a student and as an educator. While taking care of her mother, she gathered traditional tales from Dakota storytellers which were retold in English for <i>Old Indian Legends</i>. The stories revolve around various spirits and heroes from Dakota myth, especially Iktomi, a shapeshifting spider trickster.</p>
