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The Indian Fairy Book

The Indian Fairy Book

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Number of Chapters: 27

Length: 07 hours and 11 minutes

Language: English

These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and around the Great Lakes for thirty years in the first part of the Nineteenth Century and wrote many books about them.

When the story-tellers sat at the lodge fires in the long evenings to tell of the manitoes and their magic, of how the little boy snared the sun, of the old Toad Woman who stole the baby, and the other tales that had been retold to generation after generation of red children, time out of mind, Mr. Schoolcraft listened and wrote the stories down, just as he heard them.

In 1856 this collection of his stories was published by Mason Brothers in New York City. A small brown book with quaint engravings for pictures, it is now only to be found here and there in families that have always treasured its delightful contents. It is republished, with revisions and with new illustrations in color, so that these stories may be passed on as they deserve. - Summary from the Foreword of "The Indian Fairy Book"

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Foreword (Susan Morin)
Chapter 1 - The Boy Who Set A Snare For The Sun (Susan Morin)
Chapter 2 - Manabozho, The Mischief-Maker, Part 1 (KHand)
Chapter 2 - Manabozho, The Mischief-Maker, Part 2 (KHand)
Chapter 3 - The Red Swan, Part 1 (KHand)
Chapter 3 - The Red Swan, Part 2 (KHand)
Chapter 4 - The Celestial Sisters (Nerotacita)
Chapter 5 - Gray Eagle and His Five Brothers (April Walters)
Chapter 6 - He of the Little Shell (Deon Gines)
Chapter 7 - Osseoj the Son of the Evening Star (Roohi)
Chapter 8 - The Wonderful Exploits of Grasshopper (Deon Gines)
Chapter 9 - The Toad-Woman (Lynne T)
Chapter 10 - The Origin of the Robin (April Walters)
Chapter 11 - White Feather and the Six Giants (Deon Gines)
Chapter 12 - Sheem, the Forsaken Boy (Deon Gines)
Chapter 13 - Strong Desire and the Red Sorcerer (KHand)
Chapter 14 - The Magic Packet (chelstex)
Chapter 15 - The Man With His Leg Tied Up (Roohi)
Chapter 16 - Leelinau, the Lost Daughter (merelyseoneil)
Chapter 17 - The Winter Spirit and His Visitor (April Walters)
Chapter 18 - The Enchanted Moccasins (Dorothy Godfrey-Smith)
Chapter 19 - The Weendigoes and the Bone-Dwarf (Roohi)
Chapter 20 - The Fire-Plume (Dorothy Godfrey-Smith)
Chapter 21 - The Bird Lover (Dorothy Godfrey-Smith)
Chapter 22 - Bokwewa, The Humpback (Mike Harris)
Chapter 23 - The Little Boy-Man (Roohi)
Chapter 24 - Wunzh, The Father of Indian Corn (Dini Steyn)
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