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    The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths Across the U.S.A.
    The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths Across the U.S.A.
    The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths Across the U.S.A.
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    The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths Across the U.S.A.

    By Phyllis Goldman

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    Native American culture has a wide range of folktales, legends and myths that have been passed down through the generations. This rich heritage of storytelling features lessons in spirituality and morality, with animals and nature often playing central roles.

    This delightful book has dozens of mysterious, witty, and sometimes subtle tales representing the relationship between humans and the natural world
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456602475
    The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths Across the U.S.A.

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      The First Americans - Phyllis Goldman

      The First Americans: Legends, Folklore & Myths

      Introduction

      American Indian culture is comprised of a wide range of thoughts on both spiritual and moral subjects often using animals, the environment, and nature. In some legends, animals were characterized to help humans understand lessons of morality. Native American storytelling and legends are mysterious, witty, and subtle, in order to convey relationships between people and nature.

      Many legends, myths, and folklore are still told today. Some are old, some are new, but all are part of the beautiful culture that the indigenous peoples of North America have had for thousands of years.

      The materials in this book have been arranged according to the region in which their storytellers lived.

      Legends:

      A legend is a story that is passed down orally through multiple generations of people. They are often believed by the storyteller and audience to have actually taken place within their cultural history, but they are actually a mixture of both fact and fiction.

      Legends are usually set in a specific time and place with a main character that is often seen as heroic.

      Myths:

      A myth is a story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that are used to explain the meanings of events in the natural world. Mythology has a very rich cultural history. It is not just a collection of stories. It is used as a way for the storytellers to share their beliefs, their ways, and how they lived.

      Folklore:

      Folklore is a collection of stories that can contain tales of a culture's traditional beliefs and cultural practices. The stories were preserved and passed from generation to generation and were constantly changed due to memory, immediate need or purpose, or the degree of talent of the storyteller.

      The Northeast Region

      · Rabbit and the Man in the Moon

      · How the Raccoon Got Its Dark Eyes and Tail

      · Why the Bear Has a Short Little Tail

      · The Littlest Fly Flies High

      · How the Buzzard Saved the World

      Rabbit and the Man in the Moon

      Many years ago Rabbit was a great hunter, one of the greatest hunters in the land. He lived with his wise old grandmother in the forest.

      Their home was near a stream where they could drink all the sweet water they wanted and where Rabbit could catch the colorful fish that swam past.

      All year long, Rabbit would go out into the forest and set up his traps, always knowing the best places to put them and the best ways to bait them. He always returned home with food.

      However, one cold winter when the snow was deep and the days seemed shorter than usual, Rabbit went out to check on his traps, only to find them empty. Several mornings he went out, and found all the bait gone and the traps empty.

      He was upset that something or someone was stealing the bait from his traps. He could see the tracks in the snow; long and slender like no creature he had ever seen before.

      Morning after morning he would rise earlier and earlier, hoping to catch the thief in the act, but always arriving at the traps too late. Determined to catch this beast, Rabbit built a special snare and waited behind some rocks, waiting to spring the trap on this strange robber.

      He waited all day. When night came, the moon was full and casting its cold white fire across the cold white Earth.

      As Rabbit watched his trap, suddenly the sky became very dark, as if the moon had been swallowed up.

      Rabbit was more puzzled than frightened, but he continued to watch the place where his trap lay, straining his eyes to see through the darkness.

      It was a long time before Rabbit noticed a strange pale light coming towards him and his trap. This must be the thief, Rabbit thought to himself. The light became brighter and brighter until the entire clearing was illuminated by a familiar glow.

      Rabbit had to keep his eyes almost shut so he would not be blinded, but now he could see his trap.

      he was already running back home. Grandmother! Rabbit shouted as he entered the lodge. Grandmother! Come quick! I have caught the creature that has been robbing my traps!

      Rabbit led his grandmother back to the spot where the trap lay. The walk was slow because it was still so dark, but the light remained where Rabbit had left it, still in the center of the snare.

      If anything, the light seemed even brighter, and now Rabbit was growing frightened. Shielding his eyes with an arm, he reached down and lifted a great handful of snow. With one hand, he worked the snow into a ball and threw it at the creature, hoping to extinguish the brilliant light.

      There was a loud grunt and then the sound of water being boiled into the air. Growing more frightened every moment, Rabbit reached through the snow and pulled out a large stick.

      He threw the stick at the creature, hoping to stun it. There was a louder grunt, followed by the sound of the stick crackling as if on fire.

      Why have you trapped me? it shouted. "Why do you keep me here? I am the Man in

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