Skeleton Man (8 page)

I could not have written this book without the many lessons I've been taught by such tradition bearers as the late Alice Shenandoah Papineau/Dewasentah (Onondaga), Grandmother Doris Minkler (Abenaki), and my great friend Gayle Ross (Cherokee). They have helped me understand even more deeply how different the strong women in our traditional American Indian stories are from the dependent damsels of European folktales who hope for a prince to rescue them. Not only do our Native American heroines take care of their own rescues, they often save the men, too!

JOSEPH BRUCHAC
is a master storyteller and author. He has written numerous critically acclaimed novels, poems, and stories, many drawing upon his Abenaki heritage.
SKELETON MAN
, based on a traditional Abenaki story, is the first book in which Mr. Bruchac has recast the plot of one of the old stories as a novel set in the present. He and his wife, Carol, live in upstate New York in the same house where he was raised by his grandparents.

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SKELETON MAN
. Text copyright © 2001 by Joseph Bruchac. Illustrations copyright © 2001 by Sally Wern Comport. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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