"Tales of the Tepee" grew out of Edward Everett Dale's close
association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During
territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the
Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas. Later he taught many Cherokees,
Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, Sac and Fox, and Delawares at the
state university. Near the beginning of his long and distinguished
career as a historian, he gathered and recorded these stories.
Originally published in 1920, "Tales of the Tepee" takes the
reader to the lodge bonfires of the Cherokees, Wichitas, and
Pawnees, where children stayed awake to hear about giant cannibals,
magical transformations, mortal unions with celestial bodies, and
journeys to the Spirit Land. Dale preserved these popular tales of
danger and revenge, renewal and romance, and family life. They are
populated with an ogress named Spearfinger, the monster Flint, the
tragic Wynema, and the cyclic heroes Wild Boy, Stone Man, and
Found-in-the-Grass. Here are animal people like the courageous
Rabbit and the great bird Tlan-u-wa. And here are lovely
explanations for matters mundane and cosmic: how strawberries came
to be, and how the moon got its spots.
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