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100 1 _aCurtin, Jeremiah,
_d1835-1906
245 1 0 _aSeneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths :
_bThirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2020-12-30
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths" by Jeremiah Curtin and J. N. B. Hewitt is a scholarly collection of folklore and traditional narratives produced in the early 20th century. This work captures a range of fiction, legends, and myths from the Seneca people, a prominent tribe of the Iroquois nation in North America. The book aims to provide insight into the cultural and spiritual beliefs of the Seneca through the preservation of their stories and narratives, emphasizing the richness of their oral traditions. The opening of the book includes a detailed introduction and a structure that outlines the contents of the narratives to follow, including sections on fiction, legends, traditions, and myths. Curtin's collection encompasses a variety of tales, such as stories about supernatural beings, creation narratives, and lessons on moral virtues or the natural world. This introductory part sets the stage for the narrative material, presenting the significance of these cultural artifacts while demonstrating the depth and meaning inherent in the stories of the Seneca people. Characterization of the tales suggests themes rooted in nature, morality, and the human experience, all of which shape the Seneca worldview. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aSeneca Indians -- Folklore
653 _aSeneca mythology
700 1 _aHewitt, J. N. B.
_q(John Napoleon Brinton),
_d1859-1937
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64176
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