Indian Why Stories - Sparks from War Eagles Lodge Fire - A Forgotten Classic of Native American Folklore

This volume was written and recorded in a time when the great
Northwest of the USA was rapidly becoming a settled country. With the 

passing of the traditional ways of the Indian, much of the America's 

aboriginal folk-lore, rich in its fairy-like characters, and its relation 

to the lives of its native people has been lost.

There is a wide difference between folk-lore of the so-called Old
World and that of America. Transmitted orally through countless
generations, the folk-stories of our European ancestors show many
evidences of distortion and of change in material particulars; but the
Indian seems to have been too fond of nature and too proud of
tradition to have forgotten or changed the teachings of his
forefathers. Childlike in simplicity, beginning with creation itself,
and reaching to the whys and wherefores of nature's moods and
eccentricities, these tales impress as being well worth saving.

These 22 "Why" stories from the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes
were handed down from father to son, with little variation, through
countless generations, until the white man slaughtered the buffalo,
took to himself the open country, and left the red man little better
than a beggar. But the tribal story-teller has passed, and only here
and there is to be found a patriarch who loves the legends of other
days. This book is an attempt to ensure that these memories are
forever on record and never lost to future generations.

Old-man, or Napa, as he is called by the tribes of Blackfeet, is the
strangest character in Indian folk-lore. Sometimes he appears as a god
or creator, and again as a fool, a thief, or a clown. But to the
Indian, Napa is not the Deity; he occupies a somewhat subordinate
position, possessing many attributes which have sometimes caused him
to be confounded with Manitou, himself.

So enter unhindered, sit and listen until the hour grows late, while
on the lodge-wall the dying fire makes the warning shadows dance.

33% of the net sale will be donated to the American Indian Education
Foundation for scholarships.

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