
Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire
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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle’s Lodge-Fire By Frank B. Linderman.
There is a wide difference between folk-lore of the so-called Old World and that of America. Transmitted orally through countless generations, the folk-stories of our ancestors show many evidences of distortion and of change in material particulars; but the Indian seems to have been too fond of nature and too proud of tradition to have forgotten or changed the teachings of his forefathers.
Childlike in simplicity, beginning with creation itself, and reaching to the whys and wherefores of nature's moods and eccentricities, these tales impress me as being well worth saving.
I propose to tell what I know of these legends, keeping as near as possible to the Indian's style of story-telling, and using only tales told me by the older men of the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jul 17, 2013
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781304234438
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Frank B. Linderman
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- Format
- EPUB