# Indian Tales

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| name             = Indian Tales
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| author           = [Jaime de Angulo](/source/Jaime_de_Angulo)
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| illustrator      = Jaime de Angulo
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| genre            = folktales, children's literature
| publisher        = [A.A. Wyn](/source/A.A._Wyn)<br />[Hill & Wang](/source/Hill_%26_Wang) (p/b, 1954)
| pub_date         = 1953
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'''''Indian Tales''''' is a collection of connected short narratives written and illustrated by Jaime de Angulo, published by [A. A. Wyn](/source/A._A._Wyn) in 1953.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WK9eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ay8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,3265502&dq=indian-tales+angulo&hl=en|title = Lewiston Morning Tribune - Google News Archive Search}}</ref> The stories revolve around an anthropomorphic animal family traveling across California, and encountering various mythological figures, such as [Old Man Coyote](/source/Coyote_in_mythology), [Loon Woman](/source/Common_loon), and various animal tribes who live as the [indigenous peoples of California](/source/indigenous_peoples_of_California) did in pre-European times. The book is an imaginative retelling of many of the folktales and myths collected by de Angulo as an erstwhile anthropologist. The stories are written to be of interest to younger readers, but are also read by adults. The books foreword is by [Carl Carmer](/source/Carl_Carmer). The ''Indian Tales'' were originally read live on [KPFA](/source/KPFA) radio in 1949, and released as a recording.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/browse/recording.php?recid=981&catid=1 |title=Special Programs &#124; Indian tales : Jaime de Angulo |access-date=2012-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127214912/http://pacificaradioarchives.org/browse/recording.php?recid=981&catid=1 |archive-date=2010-11-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The book has been used as a text in California history classes.<ref>[http://www.steinercollege.edu/store/product.php?productid=16248&cat=1071&page=1]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ca-bib/indian.html|title = Indian Lands}}</ref> De Angulo writes in the foreword,

"When you find yourself searching for some mechanical explanation, if you don't know the answer, invent one. When you pick out some inconsistency or marvelous improbability, satisfy your curiosity like the old Indian folk: 'Well, that's the way they tell that story. I didn't make it up!'"

==Reception==
Poet [Marianne Moore](/source/Marianne_Moore) wrote, "I am charmed by the book — text and pictures. It is no effort, of course, to be pleased by the sure touch — stories and animal drawings that are poetry, innate, humor-born, and wise."

==Publication history==
*[Hill & Wang](/source/Hill_%26_Wang) (1954), first paperback edition, reprinted numerous times through the next 40 years, by successive imprints [Farrar, Straus](/source/Farrar%2C_Straus) and [North Point Press](/source/North_Point_Press)<ref>[http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-86547-523-6 ''Publishers Weekly'' review of North Point Press edition, 1997]</ref>
*[Heinemann](/source/Heinemann_(publisher)) (1954) (as '''''Red Indian Tales''''')<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4876402|title=Red Indian tales|year=1954|publisher=William Heinemann}}</ref>
*[Ballantine Books](/source/Ballantine_Books) (1974), first [mass market paperback](/source/mass_market_paperback) edition, {{ISBN|978-0345252753}}
*[Heyday Books](/source/Heyday_Books) (2003) [California Legacy Project](/source/California_Legacy_Project) edition, {{ISBN|978-1890771669}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*''Indian Tales'', Jaime de Angulo. Hill & Wang, 1953

==External links==
{{Portal|California|Children's literature}}
*[https://archive.today/20130128083809/http://us.macmillan.com/indiantales/JamieDeAngulo ''Indian Tales'' at Macmillan Publishers website (publisher of Hill & Wang backlist)]
*[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52339068 ''Indian Tales'' at WorldCat.org]

Category:1953 short story collections
Category:Trickster gods
Category:Native American mythology of California

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