Traditions of the North American Indians (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Tales of an Indian CampBy James Athearn Jones
Length23h 26m
About this audiobook
Traditions of the North American Indians gathers legends, origin stories, heroic episodes, and moral tales attributed to Indigenous peoples across North America, recast in the elevated prose of early nineteenth-century Romantic antiquarianism. Across its three volumes, James Athearn Jones blends ethnographic curiosity with literary embellishment, presenting the stories as relics of a threatened oral world. The result belongs to the same cultural moment as Cooper's frontier fiction and transatlantic primitivist writing, though it must be read with awareness of its colonial mediation. Jones, an American-born man of letters active in the Anglo-American literary marketplace, wrote at a time when Indigenous cultures were being simultaneously romanticized and dispossessed. His interest in Native traditions reflects both a genuine fascination with oral narrative and the period's desire to fashion a distinctive American literary past. The work's prefatory and narrative framing reveal the assumptions of his age, yet also preserve traces of stories that fascinated early readers on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection is recommended to readers interested in Native American representation, Romantic-era literature, folklore studies, and the formation of American cultural identity. It is not a transparent record of Indigenous voices, but it is an important historical document: rich, problematic, imaginative, and indispensable for understanding how nineteenth-century literature transformed oral tradition into print.
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Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length23 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 6, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26THE CAVERNS OF THE KICKAPOO.
2Volume 1
27THE MOUNTAIN OF LITTLE SPIRITS.
3INTRODUCTION.
28THE VALLEY OF THE BRIGHT OLD INHABITANTS.
4THE MAN OF ASHES.
29THE LEGEND OF MOSHUP.
5POMATARE, THE FLYING BEAVER.
30THE PHANTOM WOMAN.
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6THE ALARM OF THE GREAT SENTINEL.
31THE TWO GHOSTS.
7THE MOTHER OF THE WORLD.
32THE VISION OF THE ABNAKIS CHIEF.
8THE FALL OF THE LENAPE
33Volume 3
9THE MARRIAGE OF THE SNAIL AND THE BEAVER.
34THE LAKE OF THE WHITE CANOE.
10THE CHOICE OF A GOD.
35A LEGEND OF THE BOMELMEEKS.
11THE RESURRECTION OF THE BISON.
36THE KING OF THE ELKS.
12THE WAHCONDA'S SON.
37THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN.
13THE IDOLS.
38THE MAIDEN AND THE BIRD.
14DISCOVERY OF THE UPPER WORLD.
39THE ISLAND OF EAGLES.
15LOVE AND WAR.
40LEGEND OF ATON-LARRE.31
16LEGENDS OF THE HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS.
41THE FIRE SPIRIT.
17Volume 2
42THE ORIGIN OF WOMEN.
18LEGENDS OF THE CREATION.
43THE HILL OF FECUNDITY.
19THE COMING OF MIQUON.
44TALES OF A WHITE MAN'S GHOST. (pt. 1)
20THE FUNERAL FIRE.
45TALES OF A WHITE MAN'S GHOST. (pt. 2)
21THE PORTIONING OF THE SONS.
46LEGEND OF COATUIT BROOK.51
22THE MAIDEN'S ROCK.
47THE SPIRITS OF VAPOUR.
23EXPEDITION OF THE LENNI LENAPES.
48THE DEVIL OF CAPE HIGGIN.
24GITTSHEE GAUZINEE.
49Memorable Quotes
25AMPATO SAPA.
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