Culture / tradition
Great Lakes tales (Schoolcraft-derived collection)
Historical adaptations based mainly on Henry Schoolcraft's Great Lakes-era collecting. Attribution is often too broad by modern standards, so Loreveil treats this as a source-defined collection rather than a single Indigenous tradition.
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.
Read the entry →Place records are discovery aids. Traditions can span regions, languages, migrations, and modern political borders.