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Tyendinaga Tales

By: Rona Rustige
Narrated by: Brianne Tucker
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Tyendinaga Tales is a collection of previously unrecorded Mohawk folktales gathered from residents of the Tyendinaga Indian Reserve near Bellville, Ontario. The folktales are told infrequently on the reserve and are in danger of disappearing completely.

From the introduction: “Folk-tales are the verbal account of the world view and way of life of a people. They hold a special importance when the people lack a formal system of writing. For a thousand years the philosophy, religion, morals, customs, and ideas of the Iroquoian people were perpetuated by means of the spoken word. Folklore may explain the origin of man, animals, plants, and the world. Codes of behaviour, ethics, and social mores are validated in accounts which describe, for example, heroic or malicious deeds. Storytelling was used to socialize and instruct young people and acted as a social cohesive for the whole group.”

The tales which Rona Rustige has collected contain many folkloric motifs which relate them to other Iroquoian literatures. In the context of this body of Iroquoian folklore the tales take on a broader significance and their preservation allows for future systematic study.

©1988 Rona Rustige (P)2023 McGill-Queen’s University Press
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“Charming … as a record of folklore that has survived in an otherwise unrecorded setting … a good job of making versions of the tales that read well.”—William F. Fenton, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Albany

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