Wolverine Creates the World: Labrador Indian Tales

by Lawrence Millman and Alex Brown

Book Overview

folk-stories of the Innu people of Eastern Canada This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884963632
• ISBN13: 9780884963639
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Capra Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Raw tales from a harsh environment

For someone raised on the fairy tales of Western literature these raw tales of dangers and of origins were a bucket of ice water in the face. I realize how prudish my sensibilities are if they can be shocked by stories of sex organs and the functions of elimination. I did my best to put aside this prudishness and appreciate the directness and charm of these stories from an extremely harsh environment. As in his other works Millman befriends his storytellers and brings us into their tents with storms howling outside. Reading a book by Lawrence Millman is a look into a culture as different from my own as I can imagine.

What a trip!

Lawrence Millman takes these legendary tales of Wolverine, atcen, man, woman, bear, loon and seemingly puts them into the context that they could have very well been told to him.A very fast, raunchy, entertaining read that makes for a very good segue from what you might want to know about Indian lore to what the stories around the campfire actually entail.