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How a mountain was made : stories
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Title
How a mountain was made : stories / Greg Sarris.
ISBN
9781597144148
1597144142
9781597144230
Publication
Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2017]
Physical Description
303 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
"These stories first appeared in the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria's tribal newsletter."
Summary
"It is said that Coyote was sitting atop Sonoma Mountain when he decided to create the world and people, and many of the songs that Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo people have sung since the beginning of time are gifts from the mountain. The stories go on and on because the mountain itself has so many things--rocks and animals; birds and grasses, fish, frogs, springs and creek, trees--and many of the stories connect with other stories, just as the animals and plants and all other things on Sonoma Mountain connect with one another. In this book of stories from the award-winning author of Grand Avenue, Greg Sarris retells sixteen creation stories from his ancestral homeland."--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2017
Contents
The pretty woman and the necklace
Crow and Buzzard have a hunting competition
Mole finds two wives
Centipede calls for a foot race
Lizard and Mockingbird kidnap Rock's daughters
Waterbug walks away with copeland creek
Rattlesnake wins Hummingbird's heart
Coyote creates a costume fit for a chief
Skunk unleashes the night
Bat brothers banish warm wind
Ant uncovers a plot
Rain finds a home in the sky
Old Man Crow asks his twin daughters to gossip
Coyote throws his sons into the sky
Coyote creates people
The pretty woman latches her necklace.
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