Printable Native American Stories
The Indian has always been a lover of nature and a close observer
of her many moods. The habits of the birds and animals, the voices
of the winds and waters, the flickering of the shadows, and the
mystic radiance of the moonlight - all appealed to him. Gradually,
he formulated within himself fanciful reasons for the myriad
manifestations of the Mighty Mother and her many children; and
a poet by instinct, he framed odd stories with which to convey
his explanations to others. And these stories were handed down
from father to son, with little variation, through countless
generations, until the white man slaughtered the buffalo, took
to himself the open country, and left the red man little better
than a beggar. But the tribal storyteller has passed, and only
here and there is to be found a patriarch who loves the legends
of other days.
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