A KATCINA RACE CONTEST BETWEEN THE WÁLPI AND THE ORAÍBI – A Hopi Legend: Baba Indaba Children’s Series Issue 64

A Katcina Race Between the Walpi and the Oraibi – Hopi Folklore narrated by Baba Indaba

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 64

 

In Issue 64 of the Baba Indaba Children’s Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Hopi legend about a youth who is allowed to see the foot races between the Oraibi and Walpi peoples of the Hopi tribe. Over eager, and untrained he enters a race…..

NOTE: The Hopi people are well known for running great distances at speed. Indeed, a few have achieved Olympic greatness dating as far back as 1912.

eBook link: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Anon_E_Mouse_A_KATCINA_RACE_CONTEST_BETWEEN_THE_W%C3%81?id=2FMLDAAAQBAJ

Each issue also has a “Where in the World – Look it Up” section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT – use Google maps.

 

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Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children’s stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as “Father of Stories”.

 

It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.

 About the author

The Baba Indaba Children’s Stories, published by Abela Publishing, often use folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as Tattercoats or Conkiajgharuna. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. As such, we have decided to use the Author name “Anon E. Mouse” which, of course, is a play on the word “Anonymous”.