Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends
Margot Edmonds, Ella Elizabeth Clark
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· 6 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 01 Feb 1989
This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and
tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote, and Raven, as well as human-like characters “The
Girl Who Married the Moon” and “Two Brothers Who Became Stars.”
Organized by region—with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, and Northeast—the legends are drawn from many tribes, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a variety of evocative line-art drawings. The stories include:
The Bridge of the Gods, Wasco
Raven’s Great Adventure, Alaska
Song of the Horses, Navaho
Origin of Fire, Jicarilla-Apache
The Corn Ceremony, Hidatsa
The Great Serpent and the Great Flood, Chippewa-Ojibwa
The Origin of Earth, Tuskegee
The Legend of the Bear Family, Penobscot
The Origin of the Iroquois Nations, Iroquois
Get to know the first peoples of North America through these stories from their rich oral traditions.
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