Winter-Telling Stories

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Winter-Telling Stories is a collection of Kiowa tales written by Alice Marriott and illustrated by Roland Whitehorse.

Marriott relates a number of stories told her by George Hunt. The stories all relate to Saynday, the main character in the book, and his involvement with natural events on the southern plains. The title comes from Hunt's admonition to "always tell my stories in the winter, when the outdoors work is finished."

[edit] Chapters

Who Saynday Is and What He Did

The Saynday-Does-Good Stories

How Saynday Got the Sun

How Saynday Brought the Buffalo

How the White Crow Turned Black

Why the Deer have Short Teeth

Why the Ant Is Almost Cut in Two

The Saynday-Makes-Trouble Stories

How Saynday Got Caught in a Buffalo Skull

How Saynday Ran a Foot Race with Coyote

How Saynday Got Caught in a Tree

How the Bobcat Got His Spots

How Saynday Tried to Marry the Whirlwind

Indian Saynday and White Man Saynday

The End of Saynday

[edit] Editions

• New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1947.
• New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1947.
• New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969.