Author: Professor Beaver
Publisher: Professor Beaver
ISBN: 9780228235781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Have you ever seen the Thunderbird? You probably wouldn't have because it's discussed only in myths. According to legends, the Thunderbird are large birds that produce thunder and lighting. They were so huge, they hunt whales! How do Canadians ancestor come up with such wild stories? Blame imagination and a desire to explain natural phenomena too.
Author: Edward C. Meyers
Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House
ISBN: 9780888392640
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Collection of legends and myths from the West Coast. Everything owes its existence to Great Spirit. With his supernatural helpers Great Spirit maintains order over all of his creations. This belief is at the core of the stories Pacific Coast natives told their children to explain the world. Artisans carved images and painted pictures telling great stores such as how Coyote stopped the great flood, why raccoons have masked eyes, and how lightning was created when Thunderbird lit his way in the night. As well as being wonderfully imaginative, the stories carried great meaning that conveyed the wisdom of the elders. Unfortunately, when the missionaries arrived they wrongly denounced the totems as pagan idols and the stores as heathen tales. They did not hear the messages within. This book relates and analyses several of these repressed stories. The author was young when he first heard them from native elders. The tales so captivated him that he wrote them down. Now that they are published, he hopes readers will see them not only as entertainment, but also as teachings for those who will listen.
Author: Thomas George
Publisher: Lone Pine Pub
ISBN: 9781926696089
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Long ago, when the land and seas lay shrouded in mystery, humans and spirits inhabited the same space. The stories of the Pacific Coast tribes spoke of gods and demons, good and evil; things unimaginable suddenly brought to life. These were not mere stories told around the fires at night for entertainment but legends that have been left behind as a marker of a once vibrant and prosperous culture.
Author: Katherine Berry Judson
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849675351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Miss Judson has collected these myths and legends from many printed sources. She disclaims originality, but she has rendered a service that will be appreciated by the many who have sought in vain for legends of the Indians. There is an agreeable surprise in store for any lover of folk-lore who will read this book.
Author: Katharine Berry Judson
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
ISBN:
Category : Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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A collection of fifty-three myths and legends taken from the folklore of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest.
Author: William Lester Webber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: William Lester Webber
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Medicine Crow
Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780789201607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Every spring a great big monster climbs out of the lake and up the cliff to steal the mother Thunderbird's young chicks. This year she is determined to save them, but she needs human help. So she snatches up Brave Wolf while he is out hunting and carries him to her nest, where he comes up with a plan . . . Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird is based on a story recounted by Joe Medicine Crow in All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life and Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press and NMAI). Grandson of a scout who rode with Custer, Mr. Medicine Crow (1913-2016) was a highly respected elder, storyteller, and historian of the Crow people. The first member of his tribe to graduate from college, he earned an M.A. in anthropology. In addition to his calling as a teacher and "keeper of memories," he was a decorated World War II combat veteran and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2009. About the Tales of the People series Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.
Author: William L. Webber
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: Bill Grantham
Publisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus
ISBN: 9781616101213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A long-needed study of the creation stories and legends of the Creek Indian people and their neighbors...including the influential Yuchi legends and Choctaw myths as well as those of the Hitchiti, Alabama, and Muskogee." -Charles R. McNeil, Msueum of Florida History, Tallahassee The creation stories, myths, and migration legends of the Creek Indians who once populated southeastern North America are centuries--if not millennia--old. For the first time, an extensive collection of all known versions of these stories has been compiled from the reports of early ethnographers, sociologists, and missionaries, obscure academic journals, travelers' accounts, and from Creek and Yuchi people living today. The Creek Confederacy originated as a political alliance of people from multiple cultural backgrounds, and many of the traditions, rituals, beliefs, and myths of the culturally differing social groups became communal property. Bill Grantham explores the unique mythological and religious contributions of each subgroup to the social entity that historically became known as the Creek Indians. Within each topical chapter, the stories are organized by language group following Swanton's classification of southeastern tribes: Uchean (Yuchi), Hitchiti, Alabama, Muskogee, and Choctaw--a format that allows the reader to compare the myths and legends and to retrieve information from them easily. A final chapter on contemporary Creek myths and legends includes previously unpublished modern versions. A glossary and phonetic guide to the pronunciation of native words and a historical and biographical account of the collectors of the stories and their sources are provided. Bill Grantham, associate professor of anthropology at Troy State University in Alabama, is anthropological consultant to the Florida Tribe of Eastern Creeks. He has contributed chapters to several books, including The Symbolic Role of Animals in Archaeology.
