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Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

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The myths and legends of a culture will tell you a great deal about their thought patterns and what was considered important. The thirteen legends in this book are about a great many things, from the origin of the world to how animals and humans are to interact. The legends and the tribe(s) from which they were derived are as follows:

*) "How Glooskap Conquered the Great Bull-Frog", from the Passamaquoddy and Micmac tribes
*) "How the Toad and Porcupine Lost Their Noses", from the Micman tribe
*) "The Meeting of the Wild Animals", from the Tsimshian tribe
*) "The Story of Grizzly Bear and Beaver", from the Tsimshian tribe
*) "How Master Lox as a Raccoon Killed the Bear and the Black Cats", from the Passamaquoddy tribe
*) "The Ants That Pushed on the Sky", from the Pueblo tribe
*) "The Little Boy Man", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Daughter of the Sun", from the Cherokee tribe
*) "The Girl Who Married the Star", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Man Who Married the Moon", from the Isleta Pueblo tribe
*) "The Laugh-maker", from the Sioux tribe
*) "The Bear Man", from the Micmac tribe
*) "The Friendly Skeleton", from the Iroquois tribe

This book would be an excellent source of material for multi-cultural studies in late elementary school or middle school classes where the goal is to cover Native American cultures.

Got it fine and nice books. Waiting for the next 2 Thank you. Also got A Pot O Gold Irish Stories etc. Nicer than I expected it to be.

Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines
Reading these stories reminded me of the Australian stories.
It's time your kids learned to think outside the box...
with these Aesop's fables on steroids.
Aesops Fables/spec (Illustrated Junior Library)
Some of these are as scary as camping ghost stories.
There is a lot of Native American heritage that survives
and these stories are the creme of the crop!