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In this song of praise based on the book of Daniel, all creation blesses God.

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.

Tells how tipis were first granted to the Blackfoot people and then tells of why the painted designs on tipis have come to posses their meaning and power.

In this Algonquin "Earth Diver" creation myth, woven from the ideas of several traditional tales, the water birds and animals left behind when the old world was flooded dive for mud so that the Creator can make dry land again.

After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.

Two friends go out hunting for horses--but only one returns--in this story based in the Lakota Indian tradition.

A young hunter marries a female buffalo in the form of a beautiful maiden, but when his people reject her he must pass several tests before being allowed to join the buffalo nation.

An account from the Indian point of view of the events of the worst defeat the United States Army suffered at the hands of the Indians.

Goble recounts the tale of Custer's last battle through the eyes of Red Hawk, a fictional young Lakota warrior.

Iktomi, a Plains Indian trickster, attempts to defeat a boulder with the assistance of some bats, in this story which explains why the Great Plains are covered with small stones.

Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

Relates Iktomi's fruitless efforts to pick some buffalo berries.

After tricking some prairie dogs into becoming his dinner, Iktomi is himself outwitted by Coyote. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.