Introduction
Stories and legends always played an integeral part for the Anishabe as well as in all cultures. Pasted down from generation to generation, from elders to youth, these histories and understandings helps insure the continuation of an individual culture's knowledge and creates an identity unique to their own. Where we came from and where we are going.
Presented within these pages are some of these stories that have been passed down through time to help you gain an understanding from these points of view.
Legends - "in perspective" |
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| The stories, legends, myths, etc… are educational tools, tools that expresses many segment in the development of a society. Through a composed, structured systematic language, the storyteller will relay events with terminology to color an ideal transmitted. In most cases within the North American Native community members, the stories and its like are relayed with the use of their environment and its habitants to meliorate their ideal for the listeners to relate too. The habitants whom have a descriptive characteristic of their being are the focal point to the story that will aid to punctuate the messages. | The knowledge of storyteller becomes the sources of a vast information unit that have become the interpreters of the diversity of life forces observed in its environment. The listening skill to hear the voice of nature, the interpreter must open all the different senses to hear the emotional, physical, mental, perceptive, sensory and tangible voices, heightening the descriptive attributes of its character playing in the context of its story. The stories are compose of an idealistic view of how we have become to understand the world with composed structuralized terms to transfer its meaning of life. | |
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- Jake / Mohegan | |
stSome stories compose an idealistic view of how we have become to understand the world with composed structuralized terms to transfer its meaning of life.
Stories being passed from one geraration to the next.