TY - BOOK AU - Mishler,Craig TI - The Blind Man and the Loon: the Story of a Tale SN - 9780803246850 AV - E98 .B556 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Lincoln PB - UNP - Nebraska KW - Indians of North America KW - Folklore KW - Loons KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Story of a Tale; 1 The History and Geography of the Tale; 2 The Writing of the Tale; 3 The Tale Behind the Tale; 4 The Telling of the Tale; 5 The Art of the Tale; 6 The Mediated and Theatrical Tale; 7 The Power of the Tale; Conclusion and Afterword; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Notes; References; Index; 2; b N2 - The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains. As the story has traveled through cultures and ecosystems over many centuries, individual storytellers have added cultural and local ecological details to the tale, creating countless variations. In The Blind Man and the Loon: The Sto UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=547667&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -