Tag: Native American Folklore

  • Tales from Granny Squannit

    Tales from Granny Squannit

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    Joan Tavares Avant brings us Tales from Granny Squannit in the Mashpee Enterprise. Mrs. Frederick Gardner, Mashpee Wampanoag, shared the legend about the Screecham Sisters with author Elizabeth Reynard, who wrote it down around 1934. No one could not settle on Screecham’s Island, which lies off Cotuit near Mashpee, because the ghost of Hannah Screecham…

  • New Website Dedicated to Preserving Navajo Legends

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    PR Web releases information about a new website, NavajoLegends.org that is dedicated to preserving and disseminating Navajo legends of the past and present. ‘Many Navajo myths have been passed down through generations and transcend both time and culture. Many Navajo stories still exist within tribes, but are not spoken of to the outside world,’ says…