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Literary Retellings
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In the Time That Was — J. Frederic ThorneJ. Frederic Thorne’s In the Time That Was (Seattle, 1909): three Raven legends of the Chilkats of Alaska, retold in English as tales told to the author on the trail by a Chilkat man, Zachook: how Yaeethl the Raven stole the sun, moon and stars, how he stole the water of the world from the Thirst Spirit, and how the Raven sent the mosquito to plague men and why the woodpecker searches dead trees.Many Swans — Amy LowellAmy Lowell's 1920 narrative poem retelling a Kathlamet legend of a man named Many Swans who climbs an arrow-ladder to the sun, freely elaborated with motifs and songs drawn from several Native American traditions.