The Naked Bear: Folktales of the Iroquois

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John Bierhorst
Morrow, 1987 - Juvenile Fiction - 123 pages
A collection of sixteen traditional tales told by the Iroquois Indians, some featuring talking animals and some presenting terrifying flesh-eating creatures such as the Naked Bear, the Stone Coat, and the Whirlwinds.

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Contents

Chestnut Pudding
3
Two Feathers
11
The Whirlwinds and the Stone Coats
19
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

American Indians Animal-Foot Hitter arrow asked bark basket bear's began Big Earth body bones boy's cannibal canoe Cattaraugus Cayuga chestnut climbed cried Curtin Curtin's and Hewitt's dance daugh daughter deer details from C&H father fire Five Nations girls gone grandmother grandson hand head heard Hewitt hunter hunting husband inside Iroquoian Iroquois folktales Jeremiah Curtin jumped kettle kill lake listened little boy little brother lived look marriage bread marry meat morning Mother of Ghosts Naked Bear neca night old woman older brother Parker Partridge pigeons porcupine pouch pudding Rattlesnake returned saying Seneca Myths Seven Sisters shout Six Nations Reserve skin songs soon sorcerer sound spicebush Stone Coat story storytellers tell threw told took trail tree turkey Turtle Turtle's uncle voice wampum warpath Whirlwinds wife Wind witch Wolves woods York State Museum young woman youngest

About the author (1987)

John Bierhorst's many books on Latin American folklore & mythology include "The Mythology of South America", "The Mythology of Norther America" & "The Mythology of Mexico & Central America". A specialist in the language & literature of the Aztecs, he is the author of a Nahuatal-English dictionary & the translator of Cantares Mexicanos. He served as editorial advisor for the Smithsonian Series of Studies in Native American Literature; editorial associate for The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces; & editorial consultant for the Encyclopedia of North American Indians. He lives in West Shokan, New York. Illustrator Dirk Zimmer was born in Goslar, Germany on October 2, 1943. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He worked as a painter during the German avant-garde movement and then went into filmmaking. In the late 1970s, he began working as an illustrator for numerous publications including Crawdaddy, the New York Times, and New York Magazine. He illustrated about 40 children's books between 1978 and 2008. He is best known for illustrating In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz, Bony-Legs by Joanna Cole, The One That Got Away by Percival Everett, and Seven Spiders Spinning by Gregory Maguire. He also wrote a book entitled Egon. He died on September 26, 2008 at the age of 64.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Naked Bear: Folktales of the Iroquois
EditorJohn Bierhorst
Illustrated byDirk Zimmer
Editionillustrated
PublisherMorrow, 1987
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJul 3, 2009
ISBN0688064221, 9780688064228
Length123 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic
Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General
  
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