American Indian Fairy Tales: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

American Indian Fairy Tales, credited to William Trowbridge Larned, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of American Indian Fairy Tales, collected by Henry R. Schoolcraft and retold by William Trowbridge Larned Read by Chip With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the tribes. In the 1830s, government Indian Agent and ethnologist Henry R Schoolcraft learned the language of these people and went out to collect and preserve their stories before the tribes disappeared under the westward rush of American civilization. Though these stories were recast as children's fairy tales in the 1920s, they contain much of the old wisdom of a culture which has largely disappeared. (Summary by Chip)

Recording facts

• Recording title: American Indian Fairy Tales
• Author credits: William Trowbridge Larned
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 2:49:08

Catalogue topics

• children

Track guide

1. 1:Iagoo, The Story-Teller — 5:01
2. 2:Shin-ge-bis Fools The North Wind — 13:20
3. 3:The Little Boy And Girl In The Clouds — 13:53
4. 4:The Child Of The Evening Star — 24:27
5. 5:The Boy Who Snared The Sun — 15:49
6. 6:How The Summer Came — 20:02
7. 7:Grasshopper — 29:29
8. 8:Mish-o-sha, The Magician — 32:25
9. 9:The Fairy Bride — 14:47

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