Author: Gayle Ross
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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This collection of 15 Cherokee tales introduces the charming and mischievous Rabbit, the most important character portrayed in the animal stories of Cherokee folklore. Full color.
Author: Gayle Ross
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613877152
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Languages : en
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This collection of 15 Cherokee tales introduces the charming and mischievous Rabbit, the most important character portrayed in the animal stories of Cherokee folklore. Full color.
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975593417
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A Cherokee story about how otters came to live in the water and rabbits have small tails. Also includes a biographical sketch of Colonel George Davenport and facts about otters, rabbits, and the Cherokee.
Author: Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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At once criminal and savior, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Usually a figure both culturally specific and transcendent, trickster leads the way to the unconscious, the concealed, and the seemingly unattainable. This book offers thirteen interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African America, Native America, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers, as well as an examination of trickster politics. This collection conveys the trickster's imprint on the modern world.
Author: Jonathan Brennan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African American and Native American descent, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote is the first book to theorize an African-Native American literary tradition. In examining this overlooked tradition, the book prompts a reconsideration of interracial relations in American history and literature. Jonathan Brennan, in a sweeping historical and analytical introduction to this collection of essays, surveys several centuries of literature in the context of the historical and cultural exchange and development of distinct African-Native American traditions. Positing a new African-Native American literary theory, he illuminates the roles subjectivity, situational identities, and strategic discourse play in defining African-Native American literatures. Brennan provides a thorough background to the literary tradition and a valuable overview to topics discussed in the essays. He examines African-Native American political and historical texts, travel narratives, and the Mardi Gras Indian tradition, suggesting that this evolving oral tradition parallels the development of numerous Black Indian literary traditions in the United States and Latin America.
Author: Gretchen Will Mayo
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140377804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Tricky Rabbit has to hop in and out of trouble every day tricking wolves, Bobcat, and Otter in these Native American stories.
Author: Barbara R. Duncan
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807847190
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Traditional and modern stories by the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina reflect the tribe's religious beliefs and values, observations of animals and nature, and knowledge of history.
Author: Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313008108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.
Author: Alice Crosetto
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810891905
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Native North Americans have rich and diverse cultures and traditions. However, many misconceptions, prejudices, and stereotypes exist due to the lack of understanding and ignorance of these cultures. It is important that children and adolescents learn about and appreciate the invaluable contributions that North American Native groups have made to American society. Equally important is the availability of resources that accurately and objectively portray the historical events that occurred when European settlers displaced thousands of Native North Americans from their ancestral homelands. In Native North Americans in Literature for Youth, Alice Crosetto and Rajinder Garcha identify hundreds of appropriate and quality resources, including books, Internet sites, and media titles for K-12 students and educators. Entries are subdivided into chapters covering geographic regions, history, religions, social life, customs and traditions, nations, oral tradition, biographies, and fiction. Additionally, there are chapters for general reference resources, curricular resources for educators, media, and Internet sites. Annotations provide complete bibliographical descriptions of the entries, and each entry is identified with the grade level for which it is best suited. Reviews, awards, series, and URLs for supplemental online resources are also included. Anyone—especially students, teachers, librarians, and parents—interested in locating useful and accurate resources regarding Native North Americans will find this reference book a helpful and essential tool.
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Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786460199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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This comprehensive bibliography includes books written about or set in Appalachia from the 18th century to the present. Titles represent the entire region as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission, including portions of 13 states stretching from southern New York to northern Mississippi. The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order by author, and each title is accompanied by an annotation, most of which include composite reviews and critical analyses of the work. All classic genres of children's literature are represented.
