By George E. Lankford

The learn of legends has lengthy been a severe element of cultural anthropological analysis.  In Native American Legends of the Southeast, George E. Lankford has compiled and analyzed a suite of distinct and infrequent legends that might proceed to entice students and scholars of local American tradition and the learn of legends in general.

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