"The stories in this book introduce the reader to the Master of Life who created the world, cheating Spiderman who was caught out by his wife, Thunderbird who brings the storms, wily Coyote and his friends, as well as a whole cast of other characters." "Illustrated with landscape photographs and examples of Native American art and artefacts from many different tribes, these myths bring to life the powerful imagination and story-telling traditions...

This Athabascan legend follows a young girl and her family as they set up their traditional seasonal fishing camp along the banks of a river. As they prepare for the return of the salmon, the girl wonders, "What would it be like to be a fish?" This heartfelt wish sends the young girl on a startling odyssey to the sea where she learns the ways of the salmon.

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts...

When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home.

Coyote is tricked by some butterflies who laugh so hard about their joke that they cannot fly straight.

Una adaptacion del mito de los indios Pueblos que explica como el espiritu del Se~nor del Sol llego a la Tierra. [An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.]