Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortix, eds. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon, 1984. A collection of 166 Native American myths and legends from dozens of groups from across the United States, including several Algonquin stories. This wonderfully selected and presented collection is organized into sections by subjects, such as human creation stories, world creation stories, trickster tales, and spirit world stories. This is both an illuminating collection of Native American tales and just a plain good read.

Hitakonanu'laxk (Tree Beard). The Grandfathers Speak: Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People. New York: Interlink Books, 1994. This is a book of Lenape Indian (also known as Delaware) tales and legends, collected from written and oral sources by Hitakonanu'laxk (Tree Beard), a chief of the Lenape Nation, whose people consider themselves to be the grandfathers—or progenitors—of the Algonquin people. Roughly one third...