Presents a selection of Native American legends that reveal how different peoples explained the world around them

How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began

Taylor, C.J.

Children's Books

Childrens Pr

When the buffalo herds fail to appear one spring, a village in the Black Hills of South Dakota finds itself in turmoil: the people grow selfish and the elders lose their authority. But a beautiful woman comes, bearing a message. Only if the people learn to cooperate in the building of a great tipi, will she return with the first peace pipe and the rules of how it must be offered to the earth. Her message delivered, she returns to the hills and is transformed into a white buffalo, which in turn becomes a grazing herd.

The Secret of the White Buffalo: An Oglala Legend

"What is it, Noko?" Grandmother does not answer. Somehow, I feel that we are being watched and she knows what is there. "I will go and see what it might be." And then I add, "I'll be careful." Although I try to sound brave, I don't want to go into the dark corner where the fire does not glow. I remind myself that I have been in the woods many times and was never afraid before. I walk toward the huge white pine that hides what could be there. Again, I feel a wind tapping my back. I look behind me. There is nothing. As night sets in and the fire crackles, a young native girl is amazed when he grandmother invokes the spirits of their ancestors. She learn the mystical firedance and creates a bond with her people and their heritage that will last a lifetime.

Firedancers

Bourdeau Waboose, Jan

Waboose, Jan Bourdeau

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Fitzhenry-Whiteside

How Two-Feather Was Saved From Loneliness: An Abenaki Legend (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Turtleback

How Two-Feather Was Saved from Loneliness

How Two-Feather was Saved from Loneliness

Two-Feather had been wandering all winter, lonely and hungry. One spring night he goes to sleep to forget the despair, only to be awakened by a voice calling his name. It is a woman, so beautiful that Two-Feather immediately falls in love with her, and begs for her to stay with him forever. The woman leads him over mountains and through forests. Two-Feather obeys her every command, even the last, most difficult, only to find she has left him, but not without ensuring that he will never be lonely or hungry again.

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Tundra Books

Crippled in an accident and left behind by his hunting party, Lone Warrior must overcome hunger, cold, pain, and despair to survive. But most terrifying of all his trials is the appearance of a skeleton-ghost arisen from the grave. That Lone Warrior can still remember to express his gratitude to the animal he must kill to survive, and that he does not allow fear to diminish his dignity, makes him an ideal hero.

The Ghost and Lone Warrior

Guerrier-Solitaire Et Le Fantome

Geography & Cultures

Little Water and the Gift of the Animals

A great hunter, Little Water has a special gift – he can communicate with the animals of the forest, who respect him. One day, when Little Water returns from the hunt, he finds his village silent. Everyone is very sick, and the medicine man cannot cure them. He instructs Little Water to seek help from the animals. But Little Water is caught in a terrible storm and injured. The animals come to his help and give him knowledge of their healing powers. With their help, Little Water is able to save the villagers, who never forget the gift from the forest animals.

Little Water and the Gift of the Animals (Native Legends)

Petit Ruisseau était un jeune chasseur possédant un don exceptionnel: il pouvait parler aux animaux. Il adorait vivre parmi les bêtes de la forêt. Un jour, après avoir passé tout l'été hors du village, il est rentré alors que les feuilles rougissaient. Une terrible nouvelle le frappa: les habitants du village étaient malades et ne pouvaient faire leurs récoltes pour l'hiver. Ils mourraient de faim. Petit Ruisseau offrit donc de faire seul les récoltes, mais une mission plus importante l'attendait: obtenir des animaux le remède qui guérirait les habitants du village.

Petit Ruisseau et le don des animaux: Une légende sénéca (French Edition)

Tundra

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How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began

The Secret of the White Buffalo: An Oglala Legend

Firedancers

How Two-Feather Was Saved From Loneliness: An Abenaki Legend (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

How Two-Feather was Saved from Loneliness

The Ghost and Lone Warrior

Guerrier-Solitaire Et Le Fantome

How Two-Feather was Saved from Loneliness

Little Water and the Gift of the Animals (Native Legends)

Petit Ruisseau et le don des animaux: Une légende sénéca (French Edition)