Kateri's Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales

By Cathy Smith

Have you ever wondered what a modern day folktale would look like? This collection of Indigenous contemporary and urban fantasies and rewritten folktales is the answer!

As a descendent of the Haudenosaunee I thought some of my people’s traditional stories deserved a sequel, and I wished to explore my people’s folk beliefs. Kateri’s Tales does both:

How does Bad Medicine compare to Black Magick?

How desperate will the despised luck charm, Pretty White Snake, get when people refuse to work with him?

Can the Norse Jotun Ymirling find and defeat Shingebiss to become the new Spirit of Winter in Vinland?

How did the Eagle’s Cry become the most respected bird song in the Woodlands when he was cheated out of having the most beautiful song?

How can Patrick Burning resist taking on the forbidden name even if it breaks a legendary treaty with the Snakes?

A desperate soul uses “alternative health practices” when she has irreconcilable differences with her soulmate.

Chazz’s Gram tells her “they’ll” come out if you leave food out at night...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Smith
• Release date: Jan 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370252596

Cathy Smith

Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America). She is proud of her people’s heritage and also has an interest in the myths and legends of other peoples and cultures, and modern fantasy and science fiction, which is often derived from past myths and often acts as myths for modern times.