The Faithful Hunter: Abenaki Stories

About this book

Fiction. Native American Studies. THE FAITHFUL HUNTER: ABENAKI STORIES is Joseph Bruchacs compilation of tales about animal tricksters human heroes origins and landscape. With an Introduction by John Moody and a detailed map of Wabanaki Country the territory between Boston and Maine Bruchac offers the stories of a people and the words that governed their ideas of the world and morality. "Old sacred and humorous relations between the plants trees and animals weave for the reader a tapestry of Wabanaki values and insights"-Winds of Change. With his wife Carol Joseph Bruchac is the founder and Co-Director of the Greenfield Review Literary Center and The Greenfield Review Press. He works extensively in projects to preserve the Abenaki culture language and skills.