Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley - Hardcover

Judson, Katharine Berry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875802508 ISBN 13: 9780875802503

Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 2000

Synopsis

A reprint of the 1914 Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes published by A. C. McClurg Publishing as part of a series Judson was writing on Native American stories from various regions. A new long introduction augments her original preface. She made a point of not revising the stories into literary creations, but kept the words close to the original transcriptions, which she apparently did not make herself. There is no bibliography or attribution beyond tribal names. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Katharine B. Judson, a librarian and historian at the University of Washington, compiled and edited several collections of native myths and tales in the early twentieth century.

Review:

"A welcome addition to the collection of American Indian myths and tales."—A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, author of Literatures of the American Indian

"Not simply 'tales,' these stories form an Indian literature that was important on its own terms as well as in relation to American literature."—Peter Iverson, Arizona State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0875802508
• ISBN 13: 9780875802503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204