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Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (the Authorized Edition)

Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (the Authorized Edition)

River, Celeste
Linderman, Frank B.

Paperback

Native American HistoryLiterary CriticismMythology & Folklore

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0803280017
ISBN13: 9780803280014
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old-man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things. Victim and victimizer, he seemed closer to common experience than the awesome god Manitou. Frank B. Linderman thought Old-man was, under different names, a god for many Indian communities. These stories--collected from Chippewa and Cree elders and first published in 1920--are full of wonder at the way things are. Why children lose their teeth, why eyesight fails with age, why dogs howl at night, why some animals wear camouflage--these and other mysteries, large and small, are made vividly sensible.

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