Audiobook - American Indian Fairy Tales - Larned

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With no written language, Native Americans living in the
Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down
through the generations by way of stories. Far more than
mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the
collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government
Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R Schoolcraft learned
the language of these people and went out to collect and
preserve their stories before the tribes disappeared
under the westward rush of American civilization. Though
these stories were recast as children’s fairy tales in
the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a
culture which has largely disappeared.
(Summary by Chip)