Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

by Susan Hazen-Hammond
Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

by Susan Hazen-Hammond

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Overview

In the Americas, the oral tradition has created one of the oldest surviving bodies of literature on earth. Native American storytelling, in particular, stands out for its distinctive honoring of womanly power and the female forces of the universe.

Gathered here are traditional versions of stories and songs that best portray this strength and vitality. Illuminating the scope of human behaviorfrom treachero's mates and medicine men to magical sages and murderous mothersthese tales offer universal truths. And for readers who wish to explore the transformative healing gifts of these stories in a more personal way, each is accompanied by thought-provoking exercises and meditations. Also included are brief introductions to provide historical and cultural context.

Entertaining, educational, and inspirational, this collection of timeless wisdom will shed light on the lives of readers for generations to come.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780399525469
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/01/1999
Edition description: 1 ED
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.74(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

A former professor at Peninsula College, Susan Hazen-Hammond is the author of Timelines of Native American History and seven other nonfiction books, numerous articles, short stories and poems. She has received high praise for her writing on Native American subjects and has also taught a wide range of psychology courses. Her ancestors include Abenaki men and women.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Key to Symbols

One: Spider Woman Saves Ko-chin-ni-na-ko
Keresan, Southwest
Connections

Two: Spider Woman's Web
Athabaskan, Alaska
Connections

Three: Qi-yo Ke-pe, The Great Healer
Keresan, Southwest
Connections

Four: The Woman Whose Heart Became Ice
Micmac, Northeast
Connections

Five: Sedna, Mistress of the Underworld
Inuit, Alaska
Connections

Six: The Worm That Devoured Women
Cherokee, Southeast
Connections

Seven: White Star Woman and Great Star Man
Pawnee, Great Plains
Connections

Eight: Ataensie, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
Iroquois, Northeast
Connections

Nine: The Origin of Corn
Abenaki, Northeast
Connections

Ten: First Woman and the People
Navajo, Southwest
Connections

Eleven: White Buffalo Woman
Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains
Connections

Twelve: The Buffalo Wife
Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains
Connections

Thirteen: Sweet Corn Woman's Tale
Tewa, Southwest
Connections

Fourteen: The Women Warriors
Tewa, Southwest
Connections

Fifteen: Coyote Marries His Daughter
Ute, Great Basin
Connections

Sixteen: The Abandoned Children
White Clay People (Gros Ventre), Great Plains
Connections

Seventeen: The Two Sisters and Their Aunt
Miwok, California
Connections

Eighteen: The Woman Who Kept Secrets
Hopi, Southwest
Connections

Nineteen: The Quilt of Men's Eyes
Seneca, Northeast
Connections

Twenty: The Kidnapped Wife and the Dream Helper
Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains
Connections

Twenty-One: The Woman Who Built the First Medicine Lodge
Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains

Twenty-Two: The Dream of Double Woman
Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains
Connections

Twenty-Three: The Woman Who Married the Sea
Samish (Coast Salish), Northwest Coast
Connections

Twenty-Four: The Beginning of Wisdom and Law
Yakima, Plateau
Connections

Twenty-Five: Dancing for Nomtaimet
Wintu, California
Connections

Afterword
Acknowledgments
For Further Reading
Index
About the Author
About the Covers

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