Book is dark blue paper over boards with gilt lettering on the spine only.Both book and dust jacket are near fine condition. 368 pages. Book is clean & bright, no markings. Illustrated throughout.

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Title: *Voices Of The Winds: Native American Legends
Publisher: Facts On File, New York Oxford
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0816020671
ISBN 13: 9780816020676
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Molly Braun
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Indian legends describe the beauty of the natural world, the creation, the origin of fire, historical events, and spiritual truths

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Traditional stories from 60 native cultures of North America are prefaced by brief headnotes. Sources include government documents, periodicals, histories, and field research (some conducted by Clark). Familiar (Iroquois, Abenaki, Cherokee, Cheyenne) and rarely anthologized (Wasco, Pomo, Yakut, Sanpoil) stories contain archetypical symbols of universal human experience but are arranged regionally instead of thematically, as in Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz's American Indian Myths and Legends ( LJ 11/15/84). Native American cultures value an end to isolation and the individuals's return to family and tribe, but there are some striking analogs to Western myths; one Pima story neatly parallels the Noah's ark tale. Curiosities include "She-Who-Changeth" for the more common "Changing Woman," gender-exclusive language (" . . . man first appeared . . . "), and a claim that Navajos live today in prosperity.
- Rhoda Carroll, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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We are from Rhode Island and have relocated late in 2008 to Washington State, specializing primarily in Non-Fiction, some titles are a little more obscure than most, all are interesting. Many of our images are scanned, and in the process appear to be lighter or brighter in color than the original.

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