Master storyteller Florence Dunham of Chicago, a member of the Mohawk tribe, will share "Iroquois Stories and Songs" in an all-ages presentation.
Her stories will include "The Bean Woman," "Why Coyotes Howl," and a mystical legend, told by a Mohawk clan mother
named Forbidden Voice, about a wooded spot near present-day Toronto "where strange things happen," Dunham says.
She’ll demonstrate a traditional "call-and-response" technique that Iroquois storytellers use to elicit audience participation and keep late-evening listeners awake and attentive.
She will accompany herself on a drum and cow-horn rattle during songs.
