Native American Tales and Legends (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)

Compiled by Allan MacFarlan, Native American Tales and Legends compiles myths and stories drawn from the title culture. Featuring more than thirty tales, Native American Tales and Legends feature heroic stories and allegories, folk tales, and tales of the spirit world among others, which is pretty much what anyone at all familiar with the Native American culture would expect. Children will enjoy the fairy tale-like quality and dreamlike states of many of the tales ("Manstin, the Rabbit" in particular) and followers of the culture will enjoy this collection even more so. The only real downside of Native American Tales and Legends is that more material wasn't included in this collection, and that no poetry from the culture is featured either, which contains just as much mythology and heart as any of the other stories featured here. Despite that, this is instantly worth picking up regardless.

Stories seem to be "bare bones".... Not a lot of embellishing. Hoping to add some Native American stories to my storytelling. haven't found very many that I would use as is, but maybe I can Put some "meat" to these and work with them.

It's got a bunch of stories, from all different tribes, and it's a pretty cool book to read to youngins or for grown ups that wanna get an overview. I wish it had more Muskogean stories, but that's just because that's what I'm most familiar with. Also, it woulda been better to me if the stories were seperated by tribe/area instead of topic, but I still really liked it. Stories are short enough to keep kids' attention.

This is a great book for children/ and adults on different stories told by different tribes to teach members of their tribes different moral lessons and different lessons about life. Primarily lessons taught to children in each tribe. It's important to teach children lessons in morals while their young. Also told for entertainment reasons; different tribes like to tell stories for creative expression.

I tell Native American stories. This collection has tellable stories. Very useful.

I am an adult, but find this collection of stories interesting. A fun read for the small price that I paid on my kindle.

Some of my favorite reading. Ingenious stories full of wisdom & insight.

Got for my granddaughter with memories.

Book cover very different, 172 pages. but has the tale i was looking for.

My students enjoy listening to the stories. A great book!

Not what I was expecting not much use to me