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Article: Alexander Posey. Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions.(Book review)
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- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Alexander Posey. Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions. Edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.128 pp. Cloth, $21.95.
Scholars have no doubt discovered the importance of oral traditions for obtaining a greater understanding of American Indian culture. Hence, historians should praise such scholars as Matthew Wynn Sivils and his Chinnubbie, which provides an invaluable window through which to view Creek culture. At its base level, the book adds portraits of social and religious life to the mosaic of knowledge already available. This work allows the Creeks themselves to speak through ...