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Voices of the Winds - by Margot Edmonds & Ella Clark (Hardcover)

Voices of the Winds - by  Margot Edmonds & Ella Clark (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Voices of the Winds </i>gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and tribal historians.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Learn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in <i>Voices of the Winds</i>.</b> <p/> This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers <b>more than 130 Native American legends</b>, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and <br> tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote, and Raven, as well as human-like characters "The <br> Girl Who Married the Moon" and "Two Brothers Who Became Stars." <p/><b>Organized by region</b>--with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, and Northeast--the legends are <b>drawn from many tribes</b>, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a variety of evocative line-art drawings. The stories include: </p><ul><li>The Bridge of the Gods, <i>Wasco</i></li><li>Raven's Great Adventure, <i>Alaska</i></li><li>Song of the Horses, <i>Navaho</i></li><li>Origin of Fire, <i>Jicarilla-Apache</i></li><li>The Corn Ceremony, <i>Hidatsa</i></li><li>The Great Serpent and the Great Flood, <i>Chippewa-Ojibwa</i></li><li>The Origin of Earth, <i>Tuskegee</i></li><li>The Legend of the Bear Family, <i>Penobscot</i></li><li>The Origin of the Iroquois Nations, <i>Iroquois</i></li></ul><p>Get to know the first peoples of North America through these stories from their rich oral traditions.</p>

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