Narratives record the histories and experiences of those who tell them. Taking this observation as its foundational premise, this chapter draws on the author’s ongoing fieldwork with multiracial indigenous descent communities in the southeastern United States to develop an intertextual perspective on how historical patterns of cultural contact are reflected in animal narratives. These stories, their characters, and their sociocultural semantics grew out of interactions and intersections with non-indigenous populations, most notably African American and Euro-American communities. These contacts motivated the development of new animal-based narrative frameworks among southeastern indigenous communities that would not—and could not—have existed without these cultural intersections. These emergent stories have contributed to processes of ethnogenesis and identity (re)formation and reflect the historical patterns of cultural contact that underlay them.