Indian Tales
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Hailed by Ezra Pound as the "American Ovid" and renowned as a linguist and a self-described "amateur anthropologist," Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809000490
ISBN13:9780809000494
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Hill & Wang
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Age Range:10 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 5 and higher
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Children's Children's Books Fairy Tales Fiction Folklore Genre Fiction Historical History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Movements & Periods Mythology Mythology & Folk Tales Native American Native American Studies Politics & Social Sciences Short Stories Social Science Social Sciences Specific DemographicsCustomer Reviews
2 ratings
A Classic for Adults & Kids Alike
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This book has been one of my all time favourites for many years. One of the copies in my possession featured a cover blurb by William Carlos Williams, extolling its virtues. Having read it aloud to two generations of children, I can vouch for its beauty as an oral experience - brilliant, clear and transforming in its tale of a prototypical human-animal family traveling through a mythical California, encountering many amazing figures (Loon, Coyote, the Flint People) on their way. Kids (and adults) readily identify with the family dynamics among the characters. Really can't recommend too highly.
An enchanting rendering of an Indian way of life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Jaime de Angulo was a truly Californian character -- wanderer, poet, wastrel, anthropologist, linguist, and wild man; and near the end of his life he started retelling to his children the stories he'd learned from years of field work (and just hanging around) with the Pit River Indians of northern California. Out of those stories came this enchanting book, a semi-novel for children and wise adults, a series of stories both hilarious and profound told and experienced during a family's journey to visit relatives by the ocean. De Angulo's luminous vision gives us as intimate a picture of a Native American vision of life as any book I can think of. That this classic is not better known is a mystery....
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