Publisher's Synopsis
ILLUSTRATED EDITION
If you look around more closely, you will definitely see that you don't need to invent anything: the most amazing tales come from Mother Nature. And Iroquois have always remained her own children.
Therefore, nature was for them not only the foundation of all life, but also an inexhaustible source of amazing, sometimes fairy stories. The simplest people became heroes, and their adventures were kept for a long, long time in the memory of storytellers and in the evenings they came to life again and again at the burning fires.
CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 6
FOREWORD 8
HOW THE STORIES CAME TO BE 10
WHY I WAS CALLED THE STORY-TELLER 11
THE LITTLE PEOPLE 13
STORY-TELLING TIME 15
HOW THE IROQUOIS GIVE THANKS 17
A FIREMAKER AND A PEACEMAKER 20
IROQUOIS WONDER STORIES 25
HOW THE WHITE MAN CAME 25
WHY THE EAGLE DEFENDS AMERICANS 27
HOW THE TURKEY BUZZARD GOT HIS SUIT 33
WHY THE PARTRIDGE DRUMS 36
HOW THE INDIANS LEARNED TO HEAL 37
WHY DOGS CHASE FOXES 41
WHY HERMIT THRUSH IS SO SHY 43
HOW GOOD AND EVIL CAME TO BE 46
HOW A BOY WAS CURED OF BOASTING 48
WHY THE CUCKOO IS SO LAZY 51
HOW THE COON OUTWITTED THE FOX 53
WHY THE GOLDFINCHES LOOK LIKE THE SUN 55
WHAT THE ASH AND THE MAPLE LEARNED 57
HOW THE WOMAN OVERCAME THE BEAR 60
WHY THE WOODPECKER BORES FOR ITS FOOD 61
WHY THE ICE ROOF FELL 63
WHY THE CHIPMUNK HAS BLACK STRIPES 64
HOW TWO INDIAN BOYS SETTLED A QUARREL 66
HOW MICE OVERCAME THE WARRIORS 69
WHY CROWS ARE POOR 71
WHY THE INDIAN LOVES HIS DOG 73
GREEDY FAWN AND THE PORRIDGE 76
WHY HOUNDS OUTRUN OTHER ANIMALS 80
WHY INDIANS NEVER SHOOT PIGEONS 82
HOW OLD MAN WINTER WAS DRIVEN BACK 84
WHY LIGHTNING SOMETIMES STRIKES 88
WHY THE HARE HAS A SPLIT LIP AND SHORT TAIL 92
CORN PLUME AND BEAN MAIDEN 94
HOW THE ROBIN BURNED HIS BREAST 98
IROQUOIS FAIRY STORIES 100
HOW MORNING STAR LOST HER FISH 100
HOW LITTLE SHOOTER LOST HIS LUCK 103
HOW AN INDIAN BOY WON HIS NAME 105
HOW THE FAIRIES WORKED MAGIC 108
FOOTNOTE 110
