128 pages : illustrations (most color), color map ; 27 cm
Target Audience Note:
Grades 3-6 5.3
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-128)
Contents:
The Arctic. A story! (Inuit, Eskimo) Fox fools eagle (Inuit, Aleut) Land in the sky (Inuit, Eskimo). The subarctic. Firefly song (Ojibwa) The long winter (Slavey) Why Fox is red (Beaver) The northwest coast. The wind song (Duwamish) Raven, the river maker (Tlingit) No frogs at all (Haida) The far west. How beaver stole fire (Nez Perce) Why frogs swim (Shasta) How spider caught flies (Wishok) The southwest. The corn song (Dine, Navajo) Coyote and the blackbirds (Pueblo, Tewa) The mockingbird song (Pueblo, Tigua) The southeast. Mother Sun (Creek, Yuchi) A tug of war (Creek, Taskigi) How Possum got his skinny tail (Cherokee) The northeast. The Earth on Turtle's back (Lenape) Rabbit and the willow (Seneca) Under the log (Winnebago) The Great Plains. Father is coming (Pawnee) Two raccoons (Omaha) Two mice (Sioux) The gift of peace (Oto)
