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Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher: Red Chair Press
Published: 2022-08-21
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1684526566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the far north of Canada, daylight disappears for much of the year. This Inuit legend describes how the First People of Canada explained the sun’s return to their remote lands.
Author: Suzanne I. Barchers
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 193965680X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the far north of Canada, daylight disappears for much of the year. This Inuit legend describes how the First People of Canada explained the sun's return to their remote lands.
Author: Roy Henry Vickers
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 1550176617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a time when darkness covered the land, a boy named Weget is born who is destined to bring the light. With the gift of a raven's skin that allows him to fly as well as transform, Weget turns into a bird and journeys from Haida Gwaii into the sky. There he finds the Chief of the Heavens who keeps the light in a box. By transforming himself into a pine needle, clever Weget tricks the Chief and escapes with the daylight back down to Earth. Vividly portrayed through the art of Roy Henry Vickers, Weget's story has been passed down for generations. The tale has been traced back at least 3,000 years by archeologists who have found images of Weget's journey in petroglyphs on the Nass and Skeena rivers. This version of the story originates from one told to the author by Chester Bolton, Chief of the Ravens, from the village of Kitkatla around 1975.
Author: Maria Williams
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2001-06-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0789201631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA long time ago, Raven was pure white, like fresh snow in winter. This was so long ago that the only light came from campfires, because a greedy chief kept the stars, moon, and sun locked up in elaborately carved boxes. Determined to free them, the shape-shifting Raven resourcefully transformed himself into the chief's baby grandson and cleverly tricked him into opening the boxes and releasing the starlight and moonlight. Though tired of being stuck in human form, Raven maintained his disguise until he got the chief to open the box with the sun and flood the world with daylight, at which point he gleefully transformed himself back into a raven. When the furious chief locked him in the house, Raven was forced to escape through the small smokehole at the top — and that's why ravens are now black as smoke instead of white as snow. This engaging Tlingit story is brought to life in painterly illustrations that convey a sense of the traditional life of the Northwest Coast peoples. About the Tales of the People series: Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.
Author: David Bouchard
Publisher: Crow Cottage Publishing
Published: 2015-10-12
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1987848187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA great, kind and wise chief decides to erect a new totem pole. Knowing that he will soon die, the chief wants the pole to be representative of him but also to reflect the importance of others in his life. A series of birds and animals then try to convince the chief that their image should be carved into the chief’s totem pole.
Author: Gerald McDermott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2001-09-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547351194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaven, the trickster, wants to give people the gift of light. But can he find out where Sky Chief keeps it? And if he does, will he be able to escape without being discovered? His dream seems impossible, but if anyone can find a way to bring light to the world, wise and clever Raven can!
Author: Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781927095508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaven and Loon make beautiful coloured coats for one another, but things do not go as planned.
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Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaven gives the sun, the moon, and the stars to the people of the world by tricking the great chief who is hoarding them in three boxes.
Author: Boria Sax
Publisher:
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780922558438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoria Sax, steeped in animal studies in myth and literature, is not only a teacher and scholar, but also one of our finest lyric poets. This collection of poems and tales, centered around the mysterious world of crows and ravens that exists around us almost unnoticed, demonstrates the universality of the narratives in which animal wisdom plays, as he retells Eastern European and Native American crow/raven tales. The book is also interspersed with Sax's sensitive lyrics on other topics. Includes two "crow wheel" illustrations by Tom Fitzpatrick.
Author: Cindi Alvitre
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781597145091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Tongva creation story of Catalina Island and how the black-crowned night heron came to be"--
