How Coyote Brought Fire to the People
Author: Caitlin Prozonic
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781603431453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe trickster Coyote helps people stay warm through the winter in this Native American folktale.
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Fire Race
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 145213491X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[A] gracefully narrated, arrestingly illustrated myth originating from the Karuk people” about a coyote who steals fire and shares it with the world (Publishers Weekly). There was a time when the animals had no way to keep warm in the winter, because the miserly Yellow Jackets kept fire for themselves at their mountaintop home. But wise old Coyote devised a plan to trick the Yellow Jackets and steal a burning ember. As the Yellow Jackets give chase, Coyote passes the ember to Eagle, who then passes it to Mountain Lion, and so on. The animals work together, using their individual strengths and abilities, to get the ember down from the mountain where it is kept inside a willow tree. This delightful retelling of the legend from the Karuk people of Northwestern California is enlivened by beautiful illustrations and includes an afterword by Julian Long, a member of the Karuk tribe.
Beaver Steals Fire
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780803243231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoyote and the other land animals devise a plot to steal fire from Curlew, the keeper of the sky world, and they successfully bring fire to Earth, protecting it against the month-long rain that Curlew sends down to extinguish it.
Coyote Steals Fire
Author: Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2005-10-15
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1457174774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMembers of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation developed the concept for this retelling of the traditional Shoshone tale about the arrival of fire in the northern Wasatch region, writing and illustrating the book in collaboration with book arts teacher, Tamara Zollinger. Bright watercolor-and-salt techniques provide a winning background to the hand-cut silhouettes of the characters. The lively, humorous story about Coyote and his friends is complemented perfectly by later pages written by Northwestern Shoshone elders on the historical background and cultural heritage of the Shoshone nation. An audio CD with the voice of Helen Timbimboo telling the story in Shoshone and singing two traditional songs makes this book not only good entertainment but an important historical document. Sure to delight readers of all ages, Coyote Steals Fire will be a valuable addition to the family bookshelf, the elementary classroom, the school or public library.
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Ella Elizabeth Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520239265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50th anniversary edition of a perennial best seller. Tales from the oral tradition of the Indians in the Pacific Northwest.
Coyote and the Fire Stick
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Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780152004385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrafty Coyote tries to get fire for The People.
Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter
Author: Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 1449451101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrankster, warrior, seducer, fool – Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey – often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites – he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez – National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men – has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom.
Coyote Stories
Author: Mourning Dove
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780803281691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese tales feature Mole, Coyote's wife, Chipmunk, Owl-Woman, Fox, and others
Coyote Was Going There
Author: Jarold Ramsey
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0295803517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology, which gathers together hitherto scattered and often inaccessible legends originally transcribed and translated by scholars such as Archie Phinney, Melville Jacobs, and Franz Boas.
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Ella E. Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0520350960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians' own stories, told for generations around their fires, of the mountains, lakes, and rivers, and of the creation of the world and the heavens above. Each group of stories is prefaced by a brief factual account of Indian beliefs and of storytelling customs. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest is a treasure, still in print after fifty years.
