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Native American Tales and Legends (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)

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Compiled by Allan MacFarlan, Native American Tales and Legends compiles myths and stories drawn from the title culture. Featuring more than thirty tales, Native American Tales and Legends feature heroic stories and allegories, folk tales, and tales of the spirit world among others, which is pretty much what anyone at all familiar with the Native American culture would expect. Children will enjoy the fairy tale-like quality and dreamlike states of many of the tales ("Manstin, the Rabbit" in particular) and followers of the culture will enjoy this collection even more so. The only real downside of Native American Tales and Legends is that more material wasn't included in this collection, and that no poetry from the culture is featured either, which contains just as much mythology and heart as any of the other stories featured here. Despite that, this is instantly worth picking up regardless.

This is a great book ! Easy to read, many different legends.

I bought it for myself & my 8 year old grandson asked if he could have it,

so I ordered one for him.

M. Hudson

One of the best I have read - many lesson to learn and reflect on. A few stories I had to stop and reflect on to understand the lesson.

It's got a bunch of stories, from all different tribes, and it's a pretty cool book to read to youngins or for grown ups that wanna get an overview. I wish it had more Muskogean stories, but that's just because that's what I'm most familiar with. Also, it woulda been better to me if the stories were seperated by tribe/area instead of topic, but I still really liked it. Stories are short enough to keep kids' attention.

Those Native Americans!!!!!!!!! The greatest people with their tales and legends. But such a sad History........... I received an MA in History at NYU and they were part of it.