North American Great Lakes
Great Lakes collection area
A cautious gateway for tales adapted from Henry Schoolcraft's nineteenth-century Great Lakes collection. The historical source often blurs community attribution, so entries carry explicit limitations.
Great Lakes tales (Schoolcraft-derived collection)Winter contest tale
Shin-ge-bis Fools the North Wind
In Larned's adaptation of Schoolcraft-derived material, Shin-ge-bis resists and outwits the North Wind through preparation, fire, and refusal to be driven from his winter home.
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The Boy Who Snared the Sun
A tale in Larned's Schoolcraft-derived collection imagines a boy challenging the Sun itself, turning a cosmic body into the object of a dangerous snare.
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