KANATA TALES: VILLAGE TALES OF CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS

by Jacques L. Condor, Maka Tai Meh

Overview

The collected stories in this book represent fifty years of visiting indigenous, autochtonnes, and First Nations people in Canada. Relatives, elders, and tribal story tellers gave me these stories, which I offer back to Canadian and American readers of Native American fiction to honour my heritage and culture. In these pages you will find Canadian tales from Labrador and Newfoundland in the East to British Columbia in the West, and from Nunavut and Northwest Territories in the North to the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the South. You will hear the voice of the Wendigo and the cry of the raven, meet sea monsters and sky sprits, and accompany the stone canoe on its last journey. In the end, you will encounter a world very different from every day experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634929486
Publisher:	Booklocker.com, Inc.
Publication date:	01/20/2018
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Jacques L. Condor Maka-Tai-Meh is a French-Canadian, First Nations, Native American of Abenaki-Mesquaki tribes. He has been a resident of Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest for sixty years. Condor came to Alaska in 1947. He has lived in Nome, Saint Lawrence Island, Fairbanks, Moose Pass, Seward, and Anchorage.

Table of Contents

1: A WOMAN NAMED SNOW QUEBEC

2: LOUPETTE: THE STORY OF A WOOD’S WIFE LABRADOR AND NEWFOUNDLAND

3: THE GIRL WHO STOLE FROM THE SPIRITS ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN

4: THE MAIDEN AND THE MAN-BEAST YUKON TERRITORY

5: THE VOICE OF THE WENDIGO MANITOBA

6: THE LAST JOURNEY OF THE STONE CANOE ONTARIO

7: THE SKY SPIRITS OF QURLUKTUK NUNAVUT AND NORTHWEST TERRITORY

8: THE WOMAN WHO MOCKED THE SEA MONSTER HAIDAGWAI, BRITISH COLUMBIA

9: ROCK-A-BYE BABY IN THE TREE TOP BRITISH COLUMBIA

10: A CONGREGATION OF RAVENS BRITISH COLUMBIA

11: THE MESSAGE IN THE WATER NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

12: JEAN-PHILLIPPE, HARRIGAN, AND THE POOKA MOOSE NEW BRUNSWICK

13: THE OLD MAN ON THE ICE NORTHERN QUEBEC HUDSON’S BAY

14: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MARIE-LOUISE CREFCOUR

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