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Overview

This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes—Seneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and Blackfoot—these thirty-six stories, passed down through generations, are narrated by Dee Brown as they might be told around a campfire today. Updated for the modern reader, these tales capture the true spirit and flavor of Native American Mythology.

With a new preface written by the author especially for this edition and attractive line illustrations by Native American Louis Mofsie, this unique is essential reading...

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Overview

This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes—Seneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and Blackfoot—these thirty-six stories, passed down through generations, are narrated by Dee Brown as they might be told around a campfire today. Updated for the modern reader, these tales capture the true spirit and flavor of Native American Mythology.

With a new preface written by the author especially for this edition and attractive line illustrations by Native American Louis Mofsie, this unique is essential reading for a new generation of students interested in Native American culture and history, mythology and folklore, and cultural history.

Classic Native American folktales told by the author of the bestselling classic Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Gathered from numerous tribes, these 36 stories have been passed down through generations and are narrated as they might be told around a campfire today. "A full-bodied and literate survey."-- Booklist.

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Reprint of the 1979 collection of Native American folklore that draws on the oral traditions of a variety of different tribes. The 36 stories, as interpreted by the author, communicate a mythology and spiritual sensitivity that our society is just beginning to appreciate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805026078
  • Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/1/1993
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 1,161,430
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Dee Brown is the author of more than twenty five books on American history and the West, including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which has sold more than five million copies worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9
I When Animals Lived as Equals with The People 11
The Rooster, the Mockingbird and the Maiden (Hopi) 14
The Bear Man (Cherokee) 18
How Antelope Carrier Saved the Thunderbirds (Arikara) 22
Why Dogs Have Long Tongues (Caddo) 26
The Great Shell of Kintyel (Navaho) 28
The Girl Who Climbed to the Sky (Arapaho-Caddo) 39
II Before the White Men Came 43
The Cheyenne Prophet (Cheyenne) 46
The Deeds and Prophecies of Old Man (Blackfoot) 59
How Day and Night Were Divided (Creek) 62
How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth (Apache-Comanche) 63
How Corn Came to the Earth (Arikara) 65
How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People (Creek) 70
Godasiyo the Woman Chief (Seneca) 71
III Allegories 75
The Return of Ice Man (Cherokee) 78
Ice Man and the Messenger of Springtime (Chippewa) 79
IV First Contacts with Europeans 81
How Ioscoda and His Friends Met the White Men from the East and Journeyed Across the Great Waters (Ottawa) 84
Katlian and the Iron People (Tlingit) 90
How the First White Men Came to the Cheyennes (Cheyenne) 92
V The Coming of the Horse 95
How a Piegan Warrior Found the First Horses (Blackfoot) 98
Water Spirit's Gift of Horses (Blackfoot) 99
VI Tricksters and Magicians 103
How Rabbit Fooled Wolf (Creek) 106
Coyote and the Rolling Rock (Salish-Blackfoot) 109
Skunk Outwits Coyote (Comanche) 111
Nihancan and the Dwarf's Arrow (Arapaho) 114
Swift-Runner and the Trickster Tarantula (Zuni) 115
Buffalo Woman, A Story of Magic (Caddo) 123
VII Heroes and Heroines 129
The Hunter and the Dakwa (Cherokee) 132
The Prisoners of Court House Rock (Pawnee) 133
Red Shield and Running Wolf (Crow) 135
VIII Animal Stories 143
The Bluebird and the Coyote (Pima) 146
The Story of the Bat (Creek) 147
Crow and Hawk (Cochiti) 148
Why Coyote Stopped Imitating His Friends (Caddo) 150
IX Ghost Stories 155
The Lame Warrior and the Skeleton (Arapaho) 158
Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman (Blackfoot) 160
The Sioux Who Wrestled With A Ghost (Sioux) 166
Sources 169

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