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"Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a "raconteur among the Indians." The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank Speck, who published them in 1918 as Penobscot Transformer Tales. Transcribed into current Penobscot orthography and with a new English translation, this instructive and entertaining story cycle focuses...
43) Puss in boots
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A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
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This book is a compilation of several short retellings of North American Indian myths and legends. Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, how people came to be the way they are, and cautionary tales about the way people are meant to behave are juxtaposed with sometimes metaphoric, sometimes graphically realistic tales recounting the ways in which white men came to dominate the Indians.
54) John Henry
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Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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