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Old Indian Legends (1902)

por Zitkala-Ša

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Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come.

In "Iktomi and the Ducks," spider-trickster spirit Iktomi befriends a group of ducks by playing them music to dance to. Gaining their trust, he sends them into a dancing frenzy causing them to break their necks, after which he takes them to his teepee to cook a meal. When a tree branch snaps outside, distracting Iktomi, a pack of wolves moves in for a feast of their own. In "Iktomi's Blanket," a starving Iktomi prays to Inyan for a blessing of food. Stumbling across a deer carcass, he believes his prayers have been answered and prepares a fire to roast the deer meat over. Feeling a chill, however, he goes to his teepee for a blanket, leaving the fire unattended. Throughout her collection, Zitkála-Šá faithfully and respectfully retells the stories of her people. Old Indian Legends is a charming compilation from one of the leading American Indian writers of her generation, a committed activist and true voice for change who saw through her own eyes the lives and experiences of countless others.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Zitkála-Šá's Old Indian Legends is a classic of American Indian literature reima… (más)

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A fascinating collection of Dakota legends. Many of the stories describe the antics and predicaments of the trickster, Iktomi. Iktomi plays tricks on ducks, loses his meal to some wolves, and is outwitted in turn by a muskrat, a coyote, and a fawn. The tales are both humorous and instructive. Other stories include that of a hero conquering a great red eagle and of a brave and kindly rabbit rescuing a baby.

Many of the stories bear marked resemblance to tales by other Plains nations. It is cool to read these stories and imagine how they may have been passed down and changed as the tribes lived, developed, and split apart.

To read more stories like this, I would recommend "Blackfeet Indian Stories" by George Bird Grinnell. It includes "Kut-o-yis, the Blood Boy" which has similar elements to Zitkala-Sa's "The Badger and the Bear". Also, "Myths and Legends of the Sioux" by Marie L. McLaughlin contains a tale called "White Plume" which contains some of the same details as Zitkala-Sa's "The Tree-Bound".
  littleone1996 | Dec 12, 2021 |
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Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa. This is a wonderful book of Native American stories many learned by the author when she was a child growing up on the Yankton Lakota reservation. Zitkala-Sa was a leading advocate for Native American rights and co-founder of the National Council of American Indians in 1926. She was also a well respected musician and writer who, with William F. Hanson composed the first Native American opera The Sun Dance Opera. The stories in this book reflect the pride that the author had in her culture. She originally collected them to be read by children but the wisdom and joy found in these stories will touch any reader that opens their hearts to them. ( )
  dankeding | Dec 11, 2021 |
The century-old prose may seem a little precious at first, but stick with it. This is a delightful book of retold tales from the native people of the northern Great Plains. The author, Zitkala Ša, was a Dakota woman, and the illustrations to this book are also by a native artist. Zitkala Ša finds subtle ways to convey figures of speech, meaningful gestures, facial expressions, and other slices of life from the traditional Dakota culture. Iktomi, the immortal trickster, figures in most of the tales, which convey a moral lesson by inviting the reader to laugh at Iktomi's self-serving ways.
2 vota Muscogulus | May 4, 2012 |
"Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music. . .'I have read them with exquisite pleasure.'--Helen Keller. The legends are told in an easy, engaging style with a certain dramatic power." Agnes M. Picotte, University of South Dakota Source: The book's back cover.
  uufnn | Nov 5, 2018 |
Book Description: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press [1985]. Fine. 0803299036 A fine copy, probably never read.; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations. Illustrated by Illustrated by Angel De Cora. Binding is Soft cover; Fourth Printing.
  Czrbr | Jun 7, 2010 |
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Old Indian Legends (1901) is a collection of traditional stories from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Šá. Published while Zitkála-Šá was just beginning her career as an artist and activist, Old Indian Legends collects fourteen traditional legends and stories passed down through Sioux oral tradition. Intending to keep the stories or her people alive, Zitkála-Šá popularized and protected these cultural treasures for generations to come.

In "Iktomi and the Ducks," spider-trickster spirit Iktomi befriends a group of ducks by playing them music to dance to. Gaining their trust, he sends them into a dancing frenzy causing them to break their necks, after which he takes them to his teepee to cook a meal. When a tree branch snaps outside, distracting Iktomi, a pack of wolves moves in for a feast of their own. In "Iktomi's Blanket," a starving Iktomi prays to Inyan for a blessing of food. Stumbling across a deer carcass, he believes his prayers have been answered and prepares a fire to roast the deer meat over. Feeling a chill, however, he goes to his teepee for a blanket, leaving the fire unattended. Throughout her collection, Zitkála-Šá faithfully and respectfully retells the stories of her people. Old Indian Legends is a charming compilation from one of the leading American Indian writers of her generation, a committed activist and true voice for change who saw through her own eyes the lives and experiences of countless others.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Zitkála-Šá's Old Indian Legends is a classic of American Indian literature reima

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