Family of Earth and Sky

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ISBN: 9780807085295 | 0807085294
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 2/28/1996

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Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the WorldAn array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.'A kind of Bible from the natural world.' -Los Angeles Times

Introduction: A Trail of Stories	p. 1
The Emergence (Navajo, Southwestern United States)	p. 17
The Creation (Mohawk, Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada)	p. 32
Tangaroa, Maker of All Things (Tahiti)	p. 40
In the Beginning ... (Australia)	p. 42
Kalevala: The Mother of Water (Finland)	p. 44
The Origin of Different Water Animals (Nagaland, India)	p. 50
Juruna Kills the Sun (Juruna, Brazil)	p. 52
How Moon Fathered the World (Wakaranga, Zimbabwe)	p. 56
Sun and Moon (Nivakle, Gran Chaco Plains, Paraguay)	p. 58
Morning and Evening (Fon, Benin)	p. 63
The Origin of Fishes (Fon, Benin)	p. 65
How Gluskabe Brought the Summer (Abenaki, Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada)	p. 66
The Rollright Stones (Cotswolds, England)	p. 72
Hailibu the Hunter (Mongolia)	p. 75
The Seven Sisters (Kiowa, Central United States)	p. 78
The Toad (Ibo, Nigeria)	p. 79
The Chameleon and the Lizard (Margi, Central African Republic)	p. 80
The Origin of Death (Hottentot, Southern Africa)	p. 81
The Jaguar and the Girl (Nivakle, Gran Chaco Plains, Paraguay)	p. 89
The Woman Who Was Married to a Jaguar (Nivakle, Gran Chaco Plains, Paraguay)	p. 94
The Woman Married to Jaguar-Man (Nivakle, Gran Chaco Plains, Paraguay)	p. 96
The Man Who Married Gemini and Who Made a Trip to the World of the Thunderbirds (Nivakle, Gran Chaco Plains, Paraguay)	p. 98
Gratitude: The Hunter and the Antelope (Nupe, West Africa)	p. 102
The Celestial Bear (Mohawk, Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada)	p. 106
Trading Teeth with the Beaver (Mohawk, Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada)	p. 108
The Song of the Birds (Mohawk, Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada)	p. 109
The Blossom Tree (Tibet)	p. 112
The Young Man Who Refused to Kill (Tibet)	p. 118
Kalevala: Song of the Bear (Finland)	p. 123
The Legend of the Elephant (Fang, West Africa)	p. 134
The Caribou Man (Inuit, Alaska)	p. 139
Momotaro, the Peach Boy (Japan)	p. 141
The Crane Wife (Japan)	p. 144
Jataka Tales: The Woodpecker (India)	p. 147
Jataka Tales: The Lion (India)	p. 151
Jataka Tales: The Quail and the Falcon (India)	p. 153
Jataka Tales: The Antelope (India)	p. 154
Jataka Tales: The Tiger (India)	p. 156
The Frog-King, or Iron Henry (Brothers Grimm, Germany)	p. 158
The Serpent Mother (Gujerati, India)	p. 162
The Deer and the Snake (Korea)	p. 169
The Pheasants and the Bell (Korea)	p. 171
The Centipede Girl (Korea)	p. 173
The Youth and His Eagle (Zuni, Southwestern United States)	p. 177
Anansi Owns All Tales That Are Told (Ashanti, Ghana)	p. 195
Anansi's Rescue from the River (Ashanti, Ghana)	p. 198
Anansi Plays Dead (Ashanti, Ghana)	p. 200
The Jackal and the Hen (Kabyle, Algeria)	p. 203
The Jackal and the Lion (Kabyle, Algeria)	p. 205
How Ijapa, Who Was Short, Became Long (Yoruba, Nigeria)	p. 207
Ijapa Cries for His Horse (Yoruba, Nigeria)	p. 209
T'appin (Terrapin) (Southern United States)	p. 212
Sheer Crops (Southern United States)	p. 215
The Crocodile Man and the Heron Man (Murinbata, Northern Australia)	p. 218
The Monkey-Son (Tamilnadu, India)	p. 220
The Raven and the Whale (Inuit, Alaska and Northwestern Canada)	p. 223
The Raven and the Hunter (Inuit, Alaska and Northwestern Canada)	p. 225
The Lustful Raven (Inuit, Alaska and Northwestern Canada)	p. 226
The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (excerpts) (Winnebago, Central United States)	p. 228
The Stealing of the Sun (Kato, Western United States)	p. 233
Sun's Arrival in the Sky (Miwok, Western United States)	p. 235
Coyote Juggles His Eyes (Sioux, North Central United States)	p. 237
Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination (Laguna Pueblo, Southwestern United States)	p. 247
The Circle Is the Way to See (Abenaki, Northeastern United States)	p. 259
Excerpts from I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Quechua, Guatemala)	p. 268
The Day the Mountain Said No (Aeta, Philippines)	p. 278
The Circle Closes in on the Nomads (Maasai, Kenya)	p. 286
The Man Made of Words (Kiowa, Central United States)	p. 293
The Kill Hole (Chickasaw, Central United States)	p. 308
Credits	p. 315
Index	p. 319
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