Indian why stories: Sparks from War Eagle's lodge-fire

Politics & Social Sciences

Linderman, Frank Bird

Social Sciences

Kraus Reprint Co

Published by Time/Life Classics. Embossed Cover. Part of Native American Voices Series.

Pretty-shield (Native American voices)

History

Americas

Time-Life-Books

Montana Adventure: The Recollections of Frank B. Linderman

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian folklore. He appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown. Subordinate to Manitou, the Deity, Old-man is both powerful and fallible. The world he made is marvelous but filled with mistakes. As a result, tension between the haves and have-nots explodes in Indian Why Stories. Because all creation shimmers with spirit, the consequences are cosmic. Frank B. Linderman kept as close as possible to the Indian style of storytelling, using only the tales told to him by elders of the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes in the early days of the twentieth century. Indian Why Stories recalls a timeless scene: in the early evening a medicine man sits before a lodge fire, relating tales of the old days to attentive youngsters of the tribe. He tells about the animal people—the deer and antelope in a footrace, the dancing fox who convulses the buffalo with laughter, the white beaver and ghost-people, the huge snake in love with the moon, the sparrow hawk of conscience, and many more. These stories have a moral framework, revealing a reverence for life, emphasis on honesty, and the unity of creation.

Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire

Literature & Fiction

River, Celeste

United States

Bison Books

Wolf, a leader of the Gros Ventre Indians, is ostracized by his people for remaining faithful to the medicine dream of his youth

Wolf and the Winds

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

The intimate, human memories regarding Charles M. Russell, his genius and eccentricities, which Frank Linderman set down shortly after the death of his good friend, constitute a miscellany of personal insights for which any of Russell's biographers ought to have given his eyeteeth. But in none of the increasingly frequent Russell commentaries, apparently, has use ever been made of these prime source materials. When Russell and Linderman met, it was to be expected a close friendship would result. Their interests, experiences, and natural inclinations were of the same cloth. They loved untrammeled people in virgin country; they had high regard for the old-time Indian and his mores; they held the encroachments upon the old West of civilization's less laudable aspects in mutual disdain; and, finally, Linderman with words and Russell with paint and clay were professional artists concerned in the re-creation of a beloved time fast slipping away. These recollections of their shared campfires, trails, conversations, and fun constitute the finest portrait extant of Charley Russell, the human being, pulsing with personality, quip, and many of his well-known tall tales.

Recollections of Charley Russell (American Exploration and Travel Series) (Volume 41)

Arts & Literature

University of Oklahoma Press

Frank Bird Linderman was a popular, prolific, early-twentieth-century recorder of Indian life and culture on the Northern Plains. Linderman lived among the Indians - studying, loving, and grieving for a people whose way of life was under siege. During his study and immersion, Linderman developed a deep admiration for Frozen Water, a spiritual leader who devoted his life to saving the Gros Ventres from an unenviable fate. Wolf and the Winds is Linderman's fictionalized account of Frozen Water's lonely life of valor and sacrifice.

Quartzville

Mountain Pr

Quartzville is a story of a mining camp, a "Western" with no saloon brawls, no colt-toting swaggering bullies. Instead, Linderman tells the stories of ordinary mining camp life: the singing of the Cornishmen, the concerts of local band and its annual ball, of gossips and gossip, of lovers and courtship, of tongue-in-cheek fraternal orders, of the pet bear who liked to stand at the bar for his whiskey. He tells of what it meant to a man to belong in Quartzvile.

Genre Fiction

Indian Lodge-Fire Stories

Homestead Pub

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