Tyendinaga Tales

RUSTIGE, Rona; VAN DER VLAG, Jeri Maracle (illus.)

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ISBN 10: 0773506500 ISBN 13: 9780773506503

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston, 1988

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xviii, 78 p. 21 cm. B&w line drawings. Burgundy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket.

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Title

Tyendinaga Tales

Publisher

McGill-Queen's University Press, Kingston

Publication Date

1988

ISBN 10

0773506500

ISBN 13

9780773506503

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Tyendinaga Tales is a collection of previously unrecorded Mohawk folktales gathered from residents of the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve near Bellville, Ontario. The folktales are told infrequently on the reserve and are in danger of disappearing completely. The stories are accompanied by pen and ink illustrations, the work of Jeri Maracle Van Der Vlag, a Mohawk from Tyendinaga.

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"Folk-tales are the verbal account of the world view and way of life of a people. They hold a special importance when the people lack a formal system of writing. For a thousand years the philosophy, religion, morals, customs, and ideas of the Iroquoian people were perpetuated by means of the spoken word. Folklore may explain the origin of man, animals, plants, and the world. Codes of behaviour, ethics, and social mores are validated in accounts which describe, for example, heroic or malicious deeds. Story-
telling was used to socialize and instruct young people and acted as a social cohesive for the whole group."

The tales which Rona Rustige has collected contain many folkloric motifs which relate them to other Iroquoian literatures. In the context of this body of Iroquoian folklore the tales take on a broader significance and their preservation allows for future systematic study.

About the Author

Rona Rustige is curator emerita of Glanmore National Historic Site in Belleville and the Museum of Healthcare at Kingston.

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