WOODLAND TRIBESMi'kmaq Cinderella part of a comparison of European and Native traditional values unit . Plenty historical, cultural, material linked-to. < Ojibwe: How Chicago got its Name Skunktown The words mentioned by the webmaster are zhigag, skunk, and zhigaawanzh, onion (which was named after skunks). Pronounce it -- it's obvious. < Mohawk Creation Story From Legends of Our People published by Mohawk Akwesasne Travelling College, appearing on Akwesasne Mohawk Drumbeat web newspaper.
Menominee Storypage -- on the Tribal College server of the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin. Students and staff created the storypage by transcribing and illustrating traditional stories that were recorded by anthropologists in the 20th century. At present the server contains little Menoninee history, and this is the only cultural material, so there is no contextual help for interpretations.
Mother Earth Women's Mohawk Story by Lorraine Canoe-Kanarahtakie, Wolf Clan Mohawk, from an ethnic women's world perspectives page -- How Fly Saved the River -- Eastern Woodland legend told by Ril Gashiak and submitted by G. Dutton's 8th grade class (Bessborough Dr. Public School, Toronto) to an Australian server that has asked young people to submit myths, legends, and tales of their people until this coming December. Your class might like to re-tell (or make up) a tale for the Australians, who have posted several myths of the original people from Australia, and are looking for traditional wisdom stories from everywhere. Actually, they seem to have abandoned this project, but the original stories from 1995 are still there. The Buffalo and the Field Mouse -- A story transcribed by the Webmaster from Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folktales, 1916, by Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Minnesota Dakota/Santee (Woodland Dakota) who was raised traditionally until age 15, then sent to school and became a physician, and Elaine Eastman, his wife, The Frogs And The Crane -- Another tale from those collected in the 19th century by Dr. Eastman and his wife. This is a Native version of an Aesop's fable. How Glooskap Found the Summer -- Webmaster credits this to a collection by Virginia Haviland, North American Indian Legends, 1979. But it was actually retold from an old Maine Penobscot, identified as Neptune, in 1882, by the Penobscot agent's wife, published in Algonquin Legends by Charles Leland. See Book Review of Leland. Gluscap is a culture hero of Miq'mac, Penobscot, Pequod, and other Abenaki eastern Algonquian peoples. Spring Conquers Winter, -- Ojibwe legend (Schoolcraft) adapted by Frances Olcott, 1914. A version of the same tale as it migrated with the people far to the west among the Minnesota Anishinaabeg. |
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