American Indian Trickster Tales

American Indian Trickster TalesOf all the characters in myths and legends told around the world through the centuries courageous heroes, scary monsters, rapturous virgins it's the Trickster who provides the real spark in the action. And nowhere is he more central to the story than in Native American folklore. This book covers the entire North American continent, with more than one hundred tales from fifty five tribes. You'll encounter the rascally and irascible Coyote, master thief

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and it is still spoken in central North America

With a journalist's eye for detail and a novelist's feel for storytelling

This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people

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Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who

Waynaboozhoo and his return to the people

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Nine artists shared their art and culture to create the board book's designs

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