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Life with the little people  Cover Image Book Book

Life with the little people / Robert Perry ; illustrations by Chester Scott.

Perry, Robert Johnson. (Author). Scott, Chester. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0912678984
  • Physical Description: xiv, 161 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Greenfield Center, NY : Greenfield Review Press, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158).
Formatted Contents Note:
Little Jack -- Big chicken -- A squirrel tree -- Little people's stomp ground -- Tricksters -- McIntosh cemetery -- Strongest man in the world -- Intruder -- Woman with wagon -- The toy gun -- Great hunter -- Indian medicine -- Docktoring tree -- Studying to be a docktor -- Legend of Honeycomb Bluff -- The crazy snakes -- Big pecan tree -- Sacrifice -- Ancient customs -- Little people's baby -- Rattlesnake tails -- Characteristics of little people -- Creek history: Wacena comes.
Summary, etc.:
History, traditional information, family stories, and the author's own fiction are combined to create the magical world of the "little people" and a collection of stories based on the mythology and folklore of the American Indian people.
Subject: Indians of North America > Fiction.
Indians of North America > Folklore.

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