Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an
extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and
fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool,
thief, clown. The world he made is marvelous but filled with
mistakes. As a result, tensions between the haves and have-nots
explode with cosmic consequences in "Indian Why Stories".
Elders of the Blackfeet, Cree, and Chippewa (Ojibwa) people shared
these wonderful tales with Frank B. Linderman in the late
nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century. War
Eagle (the fictional name of Linderman's friend and Chippewa
medicine man Pah-nah-to, or Full-of-dew), tells these stories to
attentive youngsters after the first frost in the fall. He speaks
of animal people, including a deer and an antelope in a footrace, a
dancing fox who convulses a buffalo with laughter, a white beaver
and ghost people, a huge snake in love with the moon, a sparrow
hawk of conscience, and many others. These sparkling tales reveal a
reverence for life, honesty, and the unity of creation.
This expanded edition features thirteen previously unpublished
verse stories along with an introduction to those stories by Sarah
Waller Hatfield, granddaughter of Linderman.
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