Native Tales

Stories of the Blackfeet, Ottawa, Chippewa, Inuit, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux and others, compiled from several sources. Some are different explanations of how the world was made and how man came to be on the earth. Representative stories: The Buffalo Stone about how a stone and a song brought the buffalo back to the starving people; The Fable of the Animals, about how the animals got their powers and how Coyote slept through it all; The Eagle’s Revenge, about how an eagle avenged...
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Stories of the Blackfeet, Ottawa, Chippewa, Inuit, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux and others, compiled from several sources. Some are different explanations of how the world was made and how man came to be on the earth. Representative stories: The Buffalo Stone about how a stone and a song brought the buffalo back to the starving people; The Fable of the Animals, about how the animals got their powers and how Coyote slept through it all; The Eagle’s Revenge, about how an eagle avenged his slain brother; The Hermit and the Gift of Corn, about how a hermit discovered many useful things for his people to know; The Jeebi, about ghosts who came from the land of the dead to test the sincerity of the living; The Origin of the Winds, about a doll who opened up the sky-holes to bring us the six winds; Old Man Remakes the Earth, about how Old Man and the animals remade the world after the big flood; Raven Makes An Ocean Voyage, about how Raven got inside a whale and out again; The Raccoon and the Crawfish, about how Raccoon tricked the crawfish and got them for his dinner. There are 112 stories in all. Kittyco Press.