Foot of the mountain and other stories / Joseph Bruchac ; illustrations by Chris Charlebois.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Abenaki Indians--Fiction.
• Indians of North America--Fiction.
• Indians of North America.
• Abenaki Indians.

Genre:

• Fiction.

Physical Description:

137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press, 2005.

Summary:

• "Foot of the Mountain" is a wide-ranging gathering of mythical tales, short stories, essays, and journal entries by Joseph Bruchac, "perhaps the best-known contemporary Native American storyteller" ("Publishers Weekly"). The diverse pieces gathered here range from science fiction, stories set in the early American frontier of the author's upper New York State homeland, essays about the environment, to Indian family life and culture, drawn from the author's Abenaki heritage.
• Excerpt, from "Growing Season": "Long ago, Grandmother said, One-Who-Changes decided to make the first human beings. Back then, there was stone everywhere and so that was what the first humans were made from. They were shaped just as the People were shaped. They had arms and legs, hands and feet, bodies and heads. Like us, they had eyes to see the world around them. But their hearts were also made of stone. They had no love or sympathy for the other living things. So, One-Who-Changes broke those first humans up again into stone. Then the real human beings, our ancestors, were made. They were made from the ash trees so that their hearts would always be growing and green, so that their feet would always be rooted in this land."
• Joseph Bruchac is the founder and co-director of the Greenfield Literary Center and the Greenfield Review Press. His poems, articles, and stories have appeared in over five hundred publications, from the "American Poetry Review "to "National Geographic "Magazine. He has authored over one hundred books for adults and children, including "Keepers of the Earth" (Fulcrum), with sales of several hundred thousand copies. He and his family live in Greenfield Center, New York.

ISBN:

093010062X

OCLC:

54454626