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Four Ancestors : : Stories, Songs, and Poems From Native North America

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- Book - 1996 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Fire: Greeting the Sun, a Maushop story (Wampanoag) -- Thanks to Grandmother moon (Mohawk) -- Moon basket (Pawnee) -- Singing stars (Passamaquoddy) -- Three hunter and the great bear (Seneca) -- Firefly song (Chippewa) -- How Coyote stole fire (Colville) -- Earth: Song of the Earth (Navajo) -- How the Earth began (Osage) -- Wihio and Grandfather Rock (Cheyenne) -- Inyan, the Rock (Lakota) -- Shining mountain (Abenaki) -- Tacobud, the mountain that ate people (Nisqually) -- Clay old woman and clay old man (Cochiti Pueblo) -- Talking to the clay (Catawba) -- Water: Cloud-swallower Giant (Zuni) -- Papago rain song (Papago) -- Gluskabe and snow bird (Penobscot) -- Song for going to the water (Cherokee) -- Aglabem's Dam (Maliseet) -- Raven and the Tides (Tshimshian) -- How the prairie became ocean (Yurok) -- Air: Bird whose wings made the wind (Micmac) -- Wind song (Pima) -- Whirlwind within (Navajo) -- How Saynday tried to marry whirlwind girl (Kiowa) -- How the people pushed up the sky (Snohomish) -- Song of the sky (Tshimshian) -- Bluebird song from the night chant (Navajo) -- How songs are made (Inuit) --Gift of stories, the gift of breath (Abenaki).
A collection of traditional Native American tales celebrating the wonder and mystery of the natural world, arranged under the categories "Fire," "Earth," "Water," and "Air."

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PUBLISHED
[Mahwah, N.J.] : BridgeWater Books, c1996.
Year Published: 1996
Description: 96 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780816738434

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Burrus, S. S.

SUBJECTS
Native Americans -- Folklore.
Folklore.
Native American mythology.
Tales -- North America.