Still They Remember Me: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Volume 1 Volume 1

by Conor M. Quinn, Carol A. Dana, Margo Lukens

Book Overview

Newell Lyon learned the oral tradition from his elders in Maine's Penobscot Nation and was widely considered to be a "raconteur among the Indians." The thirteen stories in this new volume were among those that Lyon recounted to anthropologist Frank Speck, who published them in 1918 as Penobscot Transformer Tales. Transcribed for the first time into current Penobscot orthography and with a new English translation, this instructive and entertaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345798
• ISBN13: 9781625345790
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 8.8"