This wonderfully appealing anthology and tome of North American history gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to authors Margot Edmonds and Ella E. Clark by highly lauded elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote and Raven, as well as human-like characters in tales such as "The Girl Who Married the Moon" and "Two Brothers Who Became Stars." Organized by region-with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast and Northeast-the legends are drawn from numerous tribes, including: The Wasco, The Aleut, The Apache, The Yosemite, The Cheyenne, The Sioux, The Hopi, The Navajo, The Chippewa, The Cherokee, And Many Others Introduced by an informative headnote and accompanied by a hundred evocative line drawings, Voices of the Winds is an amazing window into the past of the native legends of North America.
This wonderfully appealing anthology and tome of North American history gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to authors Margot Edmonds and Ella E. Clark by highly lauded elder storytellers and tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote and Raven, as well as human-like characters in tales such as "The Girl Who Married the Moon" and "Two Brothers Who Became Stars." Organized by region-with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast and Northeast-the legends are drawn from numerous tribes, including: The Wasco, The Aleut, The Apache, The Yosemite, The Cheyenne, The Sioux, The Hopi, The Navajo, The Chippewa, The Cherokee, And Many Others Introduced by an informative headnote and accompanied by a hundred evocative line drawings, Voices of the Winds is an amazing window into the past of the native legends of North America.
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