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Jaime de Angulo drew on his forty years among the Pit River tribe of California to create the amalgam of fiction, folklore, tall tales, jokes, ceremonial ritual, and adventure that is Indian Tales. He first wrote these stories to entertain his children, borrowing freely from the worlds of the Pit, and also of the Miwok, Pomo, and Karok. The author's intent was not so much to render anthropologically faithful translations - though they are here - as to create a magical world fueled by the power of storytelling while avoiding the dangers of the romantic and picturesque.

"One of the most outstanding writers that I have ever encountered."--William Carlos Williams
"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."--Marianne Moore

One of the most outstanding writers that I have ever encountered. "William Carlos Williams"

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. "Marianne Moore""

-One of the most outstanding writers that I have ever encountered.- --William Carlos Williams

-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.- --Marianne Moore

"One of the most outstanding writers that I have ever encountered." --William Carlos Williams

"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." --Marianne Moore