Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends - Hardcover

Edmonds, Margot; Clark, Ella E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816020671 ISBN 13: 9780816020676

Publisher: Facts on File, 1989

Synopsis

Indian legends describe the beauty of the natural world, the creation, the origin of fire, historical events, and spiritual truths

About this title

From Library Journal:

Traditional stories from 60 native cultures of North America are prefaced by brief headnotes. Sources include government documents, periodicals, histories, and field research (some conducted by Clark). Familiar (Iroquois, Abenaki, Cherokee, Cheyenne) and rarely anthologized (Wasco, Pomo, Yakut, Sanpoil) stories contain archetypical symbols of universal human experience but are arranged regionally instead of thematically, as in Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz's American Indian Myths and Legends ( LJ 11/15/84). Native American cultures value an end to isolation and the individuals's return to family and tribe, but there are some striking analogs to Western myths; one Pima story neatly parallels the Noah's ark tale. Curiosities include "She-Who-Changeth" for the more common "Changing Woman," gender-exclusive language (" . . . man first appeared . . . "), and a claim that Navajos live today in prosperity.
- Rhoda Carroll, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0816020671
• ISBN 13: 9780816020676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 384