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Other council fires were here before ours : a classic Native American creation story as retold by a Seneca elder, Twylah Nitsch, and her granddaughter, Jamie Sams : the Medicine Stone speaks from the past to our future / Jamie Sams and Twylah Nitsch ; [illustrations by Linda Childers].

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LIBRA E99.S3 S16 1991
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sams, Jamie, 1951-
Contributor:
Nitsch, Twylah Hurd
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Seneca Indians--Folklore.
Seneca Indians.
Indians of North America--New York (State)--Folklore.
Indians of North America.
New York (State).
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:
147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
[San Francisco, CA.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1991.
Summary:
An environmental creation story.
Contents:
Introduction: Council Fires of the Ancients
Ch. 1. Creation
Ch. 2. The Spirit World
Ch. 3. The First World of Love
Ch. 4. The Second World of Ice
Ch. 5. The Third World of Water
Ch. 6. The Fourth World of Separation
Ch. 7. The Fifth World of Illumination
Ch. 8. The Sixth World of Prophecy and Revelation
Ch. 9. The Seventh World of Completion
Language of the Stones.
ISBN:
006250763X
9780062507631
OCLC:
22810419

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