''Winter-Telling Stories'' is a collection of

Kiowa Kiowa () people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. They migrated southward from western Montana into the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in the 17th and 18th centuries,Pritzker 326 and eve ...

tales written by

Alice Marriott Alice Sheets Marriott (October 19, 1907 – April 17, 2000) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp. Early life and career Marriott was born in ...

and illustrated by Roland Whitehorse.

Background

Marriott relates a number of stories told her by George Hunt. The stories all relate to Saynday, the main character in the book, and his involvement with natural events on the southern plains. The title comes from Hunt's admonition to "always tell my stories in the winter, when the outdoors work is finished."

Editions

*New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1947. *New York: W. Sloane Associates, 1947. *New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1969.

References

Kiowa Traditional narratives of indigenous peoples of the Americas Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of North America Culture of the Western United States Oklahoma culture {{NorthAm-myth-stub