Book Description
A collection of folktales from long ago about the Northwest Coast of North America and the Indians who lived there.
Author : Lelooska
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of folktales from long ago about the Northwest Coast of North America and the Indians who lived there.
Author : Cyrus Adler
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1776580494
Arkansas-born educator and scholar Cyrus Adler had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time in and around Constantinople in the late nineteenth century. During his time there, he became fascinated by the rich tradition of storytelling that was carried on in the region's coffeehouses. This collection brings together a treasure trove of Turkish stories, fables, legends, and parables.
Author : Basil Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"In the tradition of Tales the Elders Told and Tales of the Anishinaubaek, Basil Johnston's newest work, The Bear-Walker, brings to the printed page the spoken myths of his people, myths that have inspired exquisite paintings by David Johnson." "Here is the native spirit, as told by the elders, tales of wisdom and humour, vision and fantasy, alive with a sense of the magical possibilities of life lived close to nature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : John C. Robinson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1780993544
Stories of meaning, magic, healing and transformation for enlightened elders - wisdom tales for a new vision of aging. ,
Author : Michael Bania
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1943328013
At the edge of a great frozen river, Kumak and his family lived in their house by the willows. Though their house was warm and cozy, Kumak was not happy. His wife was not happy. His sons and daughters were not happy. His wife's mother was not happy. Too small, this house, said Kumak. I will go to see Aana Lulu. She will know what to do. Set in an Inupiat Eskimo village in the northwest Arctic, KUMAK'S HOUSE is a folktale that conveys a humorous lesson on life with Kumak as the foil. As Kumak treks again and again to elder Aana Lulu for advice, the book's charming illustrations incite laughter and introduce children to traditional Inupiat activities and animals of the Arctic.
Author : Veronica Kirin
Publisher : Veronica Kirin Incorporated
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781945884610
Told in personal and profound accounts from 100 living members of the Greatest Generation, Stories of Elders shows how technology has changed our country since 1911. Logging nearly 12,000 miles in a journey across America that chronicles 8,352 years of life, Kirin's elders offer unique insight into the most transitional time in American history.
Author : Tamarack Song
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472051067
Narratives inspired by the retelling of Indian stories and legends, with gorgeous artwork
Author : Anton Treuer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 087351680X
Fifty-seven Ojibwe Indian tales collected from Anishinaabe elders, reproduced in Ojibwe and in English translation.
Author :
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0879077700
In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abba—father) the neophyte owed complete obedience; from his abba, he would receive provisions (as it were) for the road to virtue. In addition to the abba's own example of living, there was the verbal teaching of the elders in sayings and tales, setting out the theory and practice of the eremitic life. In due course, these sayings (or apophthegmata) were written down and, later, collected and codified. The earliest attempts to codify tales and sayings are now lost. As the collection grew, they were first organized alphabetically, according to the name of the abba who spoke them, in a major collection known as the Apophthegmata Patrum Alphabetica. A supplementary collection, the Anonymous Apophthegmata, followed. Later, both collections were combined and arranged systematically rather than alphabetically. This collection was created sometime between 500 and 575 and later went through a couple of major revisions, the second of which appeared sometime before 970. This second revision was published in an excellent new critical edition, with a French translation, in 1993. Now, in The Book of the Elders, John Wortley offers an English translation of this collection, based entirely on the Greek of that text.
Author : Gail Milissa Grant
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African American families
ISBN : 1883982669
"Black families throughout the United States were fighting segregation in their local communities for decades before the civil rights movement. Their everyday battles (both individual and institutional) built the foundation for the more publicized crusade to follow. In this memoir, Gail Milissa Grant draws back the curtain on those times and presents touching vignettes of a life most Americans know nothing about. She recounts the battles fought by her father, David M. Grant, a lawyer and civil rights activist in St. Louis, and describes the challenges she faced in navigating her way through institutions marked by racial prejudice."--BOOK JACKET.