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Native American Tales and Legends
Contributor(s): Macfarlan, Allan a. (Editor)
ISBN: 0486414760     ISBN-13: 9780486414768
Publisher: Dover Publications
OUR PRICE:   $6.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2001
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Annotation: More than 30 stories from a variety of Native American tribes cover creation myths, hero tales, and trickster stories, as well as tales of little people, giants, and monsters, and of magic, enchantment, sorcery, and the spirit world. Included are "The White Stone Canoe" (Chippewa), "Raven Pretends to Build a Canoe" (Tsimhian),   many more.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - General
Dewey: 398.209
LCCN: 00047374
Series: Dover Evergreen Classics
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.14" W x 8.36" (0.3 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
 
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Publisher Description:

This exciting collection contains more than thirty richly imaginative stories from a variety of Native American sources -- Cherokee to Zu i, Pawnee to Midu -- covering a broad spectrum of subjects, as well as tales of little people, giants, and monsters, and of magic, enchantment, sorcery, and the spirit world.
Readers will find stories telling how the earth, people, and bison were created and how fire was discovered, while others introduce the hero Glooscap and the Maiden of the Yellow Rocks. Still other traditional tales tell of the troubles Rabbit's boastfulness got him into, and about the clever ways Little Blue Fox managed to escape from Coyote.
Among the stories in this collection are The White Stone Canoe (Chippewa), Raven Pretends to Build a Canoe (Tsimshian), The Theft from the Sun (Blackfoot), The Loon's Necklace (Iroquois), The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting (Cherokee), The Coyote (Pueblo), and The Origin of the Buffalo and of Corn (Cheyenne). Young people will delight in these tales, as will any reader interested in Native American stories or folklore in general.