Thirty Indian Legends
Author | : Margaret Bemister |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613109296 |
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Author | : Margaret Bemister |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613109296 |
Author | : Ella Elizabeth Clark |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1551995123 |
The role of storyteller was always a very special one among Native Americans, combining the functions of philosopher, historian, and entertainer. Winter was the time for the stories around the fire, when the hunt was over and people longed to be “lifted to the fairyland of pure imagination,” as an early twentieth-century Native American has said. This book contains the magic created around the Indian fireside, for readers of all ages. It includes myths of creation, culture myths, nature myths, and beast fables, as well as the legends, personal narratives and historical traditions of thirty North American Indian tribes.
Author | : Margaret Bemister |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2022-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Thirty Indian Legends" by Margaret Bemister. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Margaret Bemister |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2017-05-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780259543442 |
Excerpt from Thirty Indian Legends of Canada For the most part the legends here told are drawn from original sources. Many of the stories are printed for the first time; others have been adapted from well-known authorities. The author wishes to acknowledge in this latter connection help received from the collection, The Indian in his Wigwam. Thanks are also due to Mr. G. H. Gunn, St. Andrew's Locks, Manitoba, for the Sleep Fairies; to Mr. C. Linklater, Portage la Prairie, Mani toba, for the Adventures of Wesakchak; to Mr. J. S. Logie, Summerland, British Columbia, for The Chief's Bride; to the Okanagan chief, Antowyne, for the other Okanagan legends; and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Zitkala-Sa |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780142437094 |
A thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture Zitkala-Sa wrestled with the conflicting influences of American Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she was educated at boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tapping her troubled personal history, Zitkala-Sa created stories that illuminate the tragedy and complexity of the American Indian experience. In evocative prose laced with political savvy, she forces new thinking about the perceptions, assumptions, and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation, identity, and race relations that remain compelling today.
Author | : Ella E. Clark |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520350960 |
This collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
Author | : |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1610 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Canada Imprints |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cyrus MacMillan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9786057876324 |
Canadian Fairy Tales is a collection of 26 of Native American folk tales gathered from across Canada by Professor Cyrus MacMillan, who did not indicate the origin tribe of each story. The collection was originally published in 1922, and several tales within contain themes of creation. This is MacMillan's second collection of fairy tales. Like the Grimms Brothers did in Europe, MacMillan traveled the country seeking tales from the First Nations people in Canada. HOW GLOOSKAP MADE THE BIRDS RABBIT AND THE GRAIN BUYERS SAINT NICHOLAS AND THE CHILDREN THE FALL OF THE SPIDER MAN THE BOY WHO WAS CALLED THICK-HEAD RABBIT AND THE INDIAN CHIEF GREAT HEART AND THE THREE TESTS THE BOY OF THE RED TWILIGHT SKY HOW RAVEN BROUGHT FIRE TO THE INDIANS THE GIRL WHO ALWAYS CRIED ERMINE AND THE HUNTER HOW RABBIT DECEIVED FOX THE BOY AND THE DRAGON OWL WITH THE GREAT HEAD AND EYES THE TOBACCO FAIRY FROM THE BLUE HILLS RAINBOW AND THE AUTUMN LEAVES RABBIT AND THE MOON-MAN THE CHILDREN WITH ONE EYE THE GIANT WITH THE GREY FEATHERS THE CRUEL STEPMOTHER THE BOY WHO WAS SAVED BY THOUGHTS THE SONG-BIRD AND THE HEALING WATERS THE BOY WHO OVERCAME THE GIANTS THE YOUTH AND THE DOG-DANCE SPARROW'S SEARCH FOR THE RAIN THE BOY IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS The tales in this collection, like those in "Canadian Wonder Tales," were gathered in various parts of Canada--by river and lake and ocean where sailors and fishermen still watch the stars; in forest clearings where lumbermen yet retain some remnant of the old vanished voyageur life and where Indians still barter for their furs; in remote country places where women spin while they speak with reverence of their fathers' days. The skeleton of each story has been left for the most part unchanged, although the language naturally differs somewhat from that of the story-tellers from whose lips the writer heard them.