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Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear

tales from native North America

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A collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit.

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English
Pages
128

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Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear: tales from native North America
2009, Fulcrum Pub., Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Table of Contents

Introduction
The Northeast
The dream fast, Anishinabe
White weasel, Abenaki
Racing the Great Bear, Iroquois
Granny squannit and the bad young man, Wampanoag
The Southeast
How the game animals were set free, Cherokee
The wild boy, Caddo
The underwater lodge, Muskogee (creek)
The wisdom of the willow tree, Osage
The Southwest
The owl-man giant and the monster elk, Apache
How the hero twins found their father, diné (Navajo)
The bear boy, Pueblo
The ghost society, Yuki
The Northwest
The light-haired boy, Lakota
Star boy, Cheyenne
Salmon boy, Tlingit
Tommy's whale, Inupiaq.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Mahwah, N.J. : BridgeWater Books, c1993.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Golden, Colo
Genre
Folklore

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.2089/97
Library of Congress
E98.F6 B893 2009, E98.F6 B893 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
128

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23945142M
Internet Archive
flyingwitheagler0000bruc
ISBN 13
9781555916251
LCCN
2009048182
OCLC/WorldCat
318876959

First Sentence

"One of the most common rites of passage found throughout most of Native North America is the vision quest."

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