Sacred legends of the Sandy Lake Cree

by James R. Stevens

Cloth boards with gilt lettering and orange end papers. FIRST EDITION. Numerous illustrations. The corners are bumped. The DJ has ten tears to one inch, an one-quarter by one inch chip at the top of the front panel and an one by one inch chip at the base of the rear panel. The DJ is not price-clipped. 144 pages. 2020.03.16

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1971

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

for all the prosaic pleasantness about the wholesomeness of living in nature, after reading a stack of books on the native americans in the midwestern United States, and reading the wendigo stories, you have to say wait a minute... these people were eating each other.

[Jaime M · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many spoilers in this book about where we come from as humans and our relationship to the world and even beings from beyond and how to relate to them.
Sounds like here on this earth we have sovereignty and decision making authority.
Other stories: so many have a suited story for what we experience now such as the Earth - our Mother Earth and the flood - crying and maybe a wound inside her - floods.
There’s a lot of spiritual and historical information about origins of animals and global connectedness with world events / earth events.

Reading this book over and over throughout the decades helps me understand the stories I was told back then and what I understand now.

[Czarny Pies · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an outstanding work by an amateur ethnographer who collected the stories in English. This book should be a great delight to anyone living in Northwestern Ontario or Eastern Manitoba in addition to those anywhere in North America with a strong interest in the folklore of the First Nations of North America.