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"The 160 tales in this magnificent volume represent the richest record to date of a vital living legacy - the glorious folkloric traditions of the native American peoples. They also represent the combined talents of an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller and artist, who have brought together both the best of folkloric sources of the last century and an exciting bounty of unpublished tales recorded by the authors from living storytellers....
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"Native American tricksters can be buffoons, transformers, social critics, teachers, and mediators between human beings, nature, and the gods. A vibrant part of American Indian tradition, the trickster has shown a remarkable ability to adapt into the twenty-first century. In Living Sideways, Franchot Ballinger provides the first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of North American Indian tricksters. While honoring their diversity...
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In this reworking of Lewis Spence's 1914 work Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout on the history of Native Americans, their lifestyle, culture, and religion/mythology. He includes examples of myths from tribes omitted by Spence, such as the Inuit, a guide to tribes and their myths by region, and an A-Z of the chief gods,...
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"When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities of the American West. The rich and varied oral tradition of this Native language family, one of the farthest-flung in North America, comes brilliantly to life in this remarkably broad sampling of Algonquian songs and stories from across the centuries....
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The purposes of this book is to help create an awareness of the special feelings that the North American Indian has for the universe and how they influence his life. A great conflict between the white man and the American Indian originated in their understandings of the natural world. For the Indian, the earth is his mother, the ground the womb which held him. Like all living things, he is but a part of nature, one with his surroundings.
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"Native American starlore has instructed and entertained non-natives for generations. Yet until recently the sophistication of this extensive body of tradition and acute observation has not been appreciated. In this edited collection, seventeen folklorists and astronomers consider American starlore and its relation to specific observations of the sky in terms of its native uses and interpretations. Far from being another recount of sky mythology,...
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"Photographs and text trace the cultural and natural history of the North American bison, looking at how the U.S. government practically eliminated the buffalo in the mid-1880s in an attempt to force Native Americans onto reservations, and discussing later conservation efforts."--Provided by publisher.
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