Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American, Retold for Our Times by Dee Alexander Brown

Dee Brown's Folktales of the Native American, Retold for Our Times by Dee Alexander Brown

This comprehensive collection of Native American folklore draws on a unique oral tradition, illuminating for students the very roots of Native American culture. Gathered from numerous tribes--Seneca, Hopi, Navaho, Creek, Cheyenne, Cherokee, and Blackfoot--these thirty-six stories, passed down through generations, are narrated by Dee Brown as they might be told around a campfire today. Updated for the modern reader, these tales capture the true spirit and flavor of Native American Mythology.

With a new preface written by the author especially for this edition and attractive line illustrations by Native American Louis Mofsie, this unique is essential reading for a new generation of students interested in Native American culture and history, mythology and folklore, and cultural history.

Dee Brown was the author of nearly twenty-five volumes on the American West and the Civil War while working as a librarian in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for many years. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a classic in its field, was a New York Times bestseller for nearly a year and has been translated into a number of languages. Dee Brown passed away in the year 2002. Outside magazine's editor-at-large, Hampton Sides, is the author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder. He was awarded the PEN USA Prize for Nonfiction in 2002.