Featuring more than 50 legends and illustrated by the striking photography of Edward Curtis Spanning the breadth of the North American continent from the agricultural settled peoples of the Atlantic seaboard to the nomadic hunters of the Great Plains, Native American Myths and Legends provides a window into the culture and the imaginative world of the First Peoples of North America. This captivating, fully illustrated volume brings together the timeless Native American stories that range from the creation of the world to the stealing of the sun. The many fascinating characters of these tales include: The wily CoyoteThe crafty RavenThe powerful ThunderbirdsThe shrewd ManabozhoThe heroic GlooscapThe trickster Wiske-djak These stories were collected and preserved by various authors including Katharine Berry Judson, Edward Curtis, James Athearn Jones, Emelyn Newcomb Partridge, Clinton Hart Merriam and George Bird Grinnell. Edward Curtis was also a renowned photographer and his images as well as those of other artists such as George Carlin, Karl Bodmer, and Cornelius Krieghoff illustrate these tales and show the men and women behind these stories.
✔ Author(s): Various Authors
✔ Title: Native American Myths & Legends (Arcturus Classic Myths and Legends)
✔ Rating : 4.6 out of 5 base on (68 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1789506611
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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