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[dolari]

So, tonight we all sat down and watched Dreamkeeper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamkeeper), which was a TV movie that took stories from native tribes around the US and filmed them. You really should see it. Seriously. It's amazing, and I would love to see more.

Because there is more. While the film focused on stuff from around the US, there's a book I've always highly recommended people read, called "Tales from Silver Lands" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Silver_Lands) which is a compilation of Incan, Aztec and Mayan stories, put together by Charles Finger in the 1930s.

Make sure to get the copy with the woodcut, and not the "Apple Paperbacks" version, which is abridged and has a somewhat offensive cover (well, to me it's offensive).

I love "fairy tales." From Greek Mythology, Celtic annals, and even more "urban legends" stuff like La Llorona. But these native stories are so different from what you read coming out of Europe...they'll give you a different perspective of mythology and legend.

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Fetching it now. ^_^ (Of course, getting around to watching it is quite another matter.. still, maybe I can nudge myself into allowing myself to watch a bit more TV and film. I just keep feeling distracted by the frustrations of the jobhunt and finances. I really shan't miss those feelings)

On a similar note, though more European traditional, I do hope you know of Jim Henson's "The Storyteller", starring John Hurt? They're traditional tales, but not the more well-known ones, permitting themselves rather more of the spiky nature of older storytelling. Rather nicely done, and he does make a superb narrator. ^_^