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Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

J. B. Lippincott Company

  • 219 pages
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An 1891 anthology of North American Indian folk tales gathering creation stories, trickster cycles, and animal fables from the Algonquin, Chippewa, and other northern nations into a single volume of the Folk-Lore and Legends series.

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