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Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear: Stories from Native North America
Flying with the Eagle Racing the Great Bear Stories from Native North America
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Each story in this collection of authentic native North American tribal tales drawn from sixteen native American cultures focuses on the unifying theme of a boy's passage into manhood. From Publishers Weekly In Native American cultures the passage of a boy into manhood is a highly significant event marked by a variety of rituals. "One p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816730278
ISBN-10: 081673027X
Publication Date: 10/29/1998
Pages: 144
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Troll Communications
Book Type: Paperback
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in the old days the grandmothers,grandfathers,and elders would tell stories to kids about [native] creation,to learn how to act in the society they were growing up in, so they would learn what was expected of them.
16 stories in this book cover Anishinabe,Anenaki,Iroquois,Wampanoag,Cherokee,Caddo,Creek [Muskogee],Osage,Apache,Dine'[Navajo],Pubelo,Yuki,Lakota,Cheyenne,Tlingit,Inupaiq.
has a bibliography.
my grands seem to like it and have re-read it.


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