Paul Goble
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question of whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.
4) Star Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the Blackfoot Indian legend in which Star Boy gains the Sun's forgiveness for his mother's disobedience and is allowed to return to the Sky World.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Mystic horse
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells how tipis were first granted to the Blackfoot people and then, in a dramatic rendering of an old myth, tells of why the painted designs on tipis have come to possess their meaning and power.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.