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"Indeed,
it is on this account that the people
call me the
Foolish One. They are right."
The following books will introduce you to Wakdjunkaga, who
said these words in the Winnebago Trickster cycle (no. 11; see
Radin below).
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- Radin, Paul. The
Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology. New
York: Schocken Books, 1972.
- Landmark study of the thousand-year old cycle of
49 tales recounting the humorous exploits and
misadventures of the Winnebago Trickster
Wakdjunkaga. Anthropologist Radin recorded the
stories from his informant, Sam Blowsnake, in
1912. Radin analyzes their significance in Native
American mythology and, at the end of the book,
psychologist Carl Jung discusses the Trickster
figure as an archetype of the primal unconscious.
- Velie, Alan R. (Ed.). American
Indian Literature: An Anthology (Danny Timmons,
Illus.). University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
- Includes the Winnebago Trickster cycle with
handsome line drawings by Timmons, conveying the
often gentle spirit of this character.
- Turner, Frederick (Ed.). The
Portable North American Indian Reader. Penguin, 1977.
- If you can't find either of the above books for
the full Trickster cycle, this book selects a
subset of the tales in its chapter on Winnebago
myths.
- Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. Literatures
of the American Indian. New York: Chelsea House,
1991.
- Chapter 3, "Telling Stories," puts
these tales in the context of Native American
literature as a whole.
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