Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear tales from native North America /

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Flying with the eagle, racing the Great Bear tales from native North America / [electronic resource] : told by Joseph Bruchac. - Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2011. - xi, 130 p.

Originally published: Mahwah, N.J. : BridgeWater Books, c1993.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- The Northeast -- The dream fast, Anishinabe -- White weasel, Abenaki -- Racing the Great Bear, Iroquois -- Granny squannit and the bad young man, Wampanoag -- The Southeast -- How the game animals were set free, Cherokee -- The wild boy, Caddo -- The underwater lodge, Muskogee (creek) -- The wisdom of the willow tree, Osage -- The Southwest -- The owl-man giant and the monster elk, Apache -- How the hero twins found their father, dine (Navajo) -- The bear boy, Pueblo -- The ghost society, Yuki -- The Northwest -- The light-haired boy, Lakota -- Star boy, Cheyenne -- Salmon boy, Tlingit -- Tommy's whale, Inupiaq.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781555917753 (electronic bk.)




Indians of North America--Folklore.
Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.
Masculinity--Folklore.
Tales--North America.


Electronic books.

E98.F6 / B893 2011

398.2089/97