Red Hunters and the Animal People (annotated)

Red Hunters and the Animal People is a classic collection of Native American stories by Charles Eastman. That these Native American stories about animals were written by an Indian accounts largely, perhaps, for a certain quality differentiating them from others of their class. Many current stories of bird and beast show a wider knowledge of animals than do these under consideration. In this collection, however, there is expressed a feeling of camaraderie between the author and the subjects of the tales, a kinship between man and the animal world, which is not expressed elsewhere.