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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire

By Frank B. Linderman, Sarah Waller Hatfield (Introduction)
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By Frank B. Linderman, Sarah Waller Hatfield (Introduction)
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Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown. The world he made is marvelous but filled with mistakes. As a result, tensions between the haves and have-nots explode with cosmic consequences in Indian Why Stories.

Elders of the Blackfeet, Cree, and Chippewa (Ojibwa) people shared these wonderful tales with Frank B. Linderman in the late ninet...

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LiteratureSocial SciencesFolklore & MythologyNative American StudiesNative American Folklore & MythologyNative North American PeopleNative North American Peoples - Folklore