Native American Storytelling Additional Links
"Long ago, they say, when the earth was not yet finished, darkness lay upon the water and they rubbed each other. The sound they made was like the sound at the edge of a pond. There, on the water, in the darkness, in the noise, and in a very strong wind, a child was born." —Papago Narrative
Iroquois Oral Traditions
http://www.indians.org/welker/iroqoral.htm
Ojibway Oral Traditions
http://www.turtle-island.com/traditions.htm
Native American Oral Traditions
http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0011.html
Pawnee Oral Traditions
http://www.pawneenation.org/traditions/bertpeters.htm
Oral Traditions of the Cote d’Ivoire
http://www.masabo.com/about_oral_traditions.html
African Storytelling Additional Links
"It is only the story that can continue beyond the war and the warrior. It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters. It is the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence."
African Oral Traditions
http://africancultures.about.com/library/extras/bloraltradition.htm
African Stories, Proverbs, and Lessons
http://africancultures.about.com/library/extras/bloraltradition.htm
Written and Oral Traditions
http://sunfive.fresno.edu/field/fieldwork/projects/middleschool/204/resource5.htm
Lesson Plan on Oral Traditions in Africa
http://africa.wisc.edu/outreach/units/oraltrad.html
Lesson Plan on Oral Traditions in Africa Today
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/outreach/units/oraltrad.html
Books on African Storytelling
http://africa.wisc.edu/outreach/units/story-bib.html
Latin American Storytelling Additional Links
Latin American Storytellers
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/bplg/program.htm
Texas Hispanic Storytelling Festival
http://hometown.aol.com/asconsuelo/Bilingual/2000Festival.html
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Through stories, memory is kept alive. Many cultures throughout the world and in the United States preserve memory through stories, especially noted in