Indian Why Stories (Expanded Edition)
Subtitle: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Contributors: Sarah Waller Hatfield (Introduction)
Edition: 2 Expanded edition
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: November 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780803280380
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Siksika Indians; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Fiction / Folklore; Cree Indians; Folklore
First sentence: IT was the moon when leaves were falling, for Napa had finished painting them for their dance with the North wind.
Description: "Elders of the Blackfeet, Cree, and Chippewa (Ojibwa) people shared these tales with Frank B. Linderman in the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century. War Eagle (the fictional name of Linderman's friend and Chippewa medicine man Pah-nah-to, or Full-of-dew) tells these stories to attentive youngsters after the first frost in the fall. He speaks of animal people, including a deer and an antelope in a footrace, a dancing fox who convulses a buffalo with laughter, a white beaver and ghost people, a huge snake in love with the moon, a sparrow hawk of conscience, and many others. These sparkling tales reveal a reverence for life, honesty, and the unity of creation." "This expanded edition features thirteen previously unpublished verse stories along with an introduction to those stories by Sarah Waller Hatfield, granddaughter of Linderman."--BOOK JACKET.