Native American Legends
updated August 19, 2023
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Native American Legends can be part of a Waldorf curriculum in several years, and you may sometimes find yourself wondering what block to put them in or at what age to do them.
I've seen a Native American Legends block in second grade as a part of world folktales (Live Ed does this), in third grade to go along with Housebuilding, in fourth grade as part of Local History & Geography,
and in fifth grade as part of U.S. Geography (states, territories, tribal lands).
Generally, I prefer to tie in Native American Legends with third grade Housebuilding
and a look at Biomes, but have done them as a stand-alone Cultural block several times (in 2016 and 2020).
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Books to Buy
There are SO many resources for the Native American Legends block! So don't buy anything!
The best thing to
do is to go to your local public library. Check in the Dewey Decimal System in 398.2 (398 is Folklore; 398.2 is Legends/Myths).
It would also be wonderful to find a local Native storyteller, if possible.
Below I have listed the books I chose to use. Feel free
to use the ones that speak to you. Email me to share your suggestions!
* NEW* Introducing Form
Drawing with Native American Legends blog post
I first did this main lesson block in December 2016. Although it is tempting to do beautifully illustrated books which feature Native American characters like The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble or Cloud Eyes by Kathryn Lasky, I wanted actual Legends.
Our list of stories was:
Native American Legends
2016
 The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land 
ed. by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Thomas Locker
"The Seven Mateinnu"
Lenape - Eastern Woodlands
It is easiest to see the Pleiades in the Northern Hemisphere between October and April
How to Find the Pleiades Star Cluster
Helpful image to explain why not all constellations
are visible at all times of the year
 How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be
retold by Beatrice Orcutt Harrell, illustrated by Susan L. Roth
Choctow - Southeast
We did the art project in MaryAnn Kohl's Storybook Art for
our main lesson book illustration for this story. It is called "Fine Feather Collage," p.85.
 The Legend of the Bluebonnet 
retold and illustrated by Tomie de Paola
Comanche - Texas
 The Story of Jumping Mouse 
retold and illustrated by by John Steptoe
Plains Indians
We did a wet on dry watercolor painting of a little mouse for this story. See my blog post for the how-to and pictures.
There is a class play script for this story; see my notes above regarding free resources.
 Native American Sign Language 
by Madeline Olsen, illustrated by Ben Carter
 How the Stars Fell into the Sky 
retold by Jerrie Oughton, illustrated by Lisa Desimini
Navajo - Southwest
 The Legend of the Lady Slipper 
retold by Lise Lunge-Larsen and Margi Preus, illustrated by Andrea Arroyo
Ojibwe - Great Lakes
 Raven 
retold and illustrated by Gerald McDermott
Pacific Northwest
We did a painting of the Sun for this story using watercolors over a wax crayon resist. We drew concentric circles, using the highly stylized
geometric art designs of the Pacific Northwest as our inspiration, then painted the sun colors overtop. An oil pastel in white or another light color
would also work well.
UPDATE: I would not do this again, as white concentric circles and the color yellow are not motifs found in this style of art. I would
look for a project which felt more authentic.
An Overview of Pacific Northwest Native Indian Art (PDF)
 The Loon's Necklace 
retold by William Toye, illustrated by Elizabeth Cleaver
Tsimshian legend - British Columbia, Canada
 The Polar Bear Son 
retold and illustrated by Lydia Dabcovich
Inuit - Arctic
My blog posts from teaching this topic for the first time in December 2016:
My blog posts from teaching this topic as a main lesson block in May 2020:
And my 8 blog posts from doing this block one-on-one with a tutoring client in June 2020:
If you bring in a conversation about Shelters you can use it as a bridge to third grade; you can also
have a focus on Biomes and North American Geography if you are teaching a fifth grader as well.
Additional resources I recommend (remember that you can go more deeply into this in later years)
Series of Legends:
the series of Native American Legends retold by Terri Cohlene & Gloria Dominic
the Keepers series by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
(these books are an absolutely fantastic value because they contain a full curriculum on each topic -- such as Botany -- plus each section of activities opens with 1 or 2 Native American Legends)
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
"The Coming of Gluscabi" (Abenaki - Northeast Woodland)
"The Earth on Turtle's Back" (Onondaga - Northeast Woodland)
"Four Worlds: The Dine Story of Creation" (Dine - Southwest)
"Loo-Wit, The Fire-Keeper" (Nisqually - Pacific Northwest)
"How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun" (Muskogee - Oklahoma)
"Tunka-Shila, Grandfather Rock" (Lakota - Great Plains)
"Old Man Coyote and the Rock" (Pawnee - Great Plains)
"Gluscabi and the Wind Eagle" (Abenaki - Northeast Woodlands)
"The Hero Twins and the Swallower of Clouds" (Zuni - Southwest)
"Koluscap and the Water Monster" (MicMac and Maliseet - Nova Scotia)
"How Thunder and Earthquake Made Ocean" (Yurok - California)
"Sedna, The Woman Under the Sea" (Inuit - Arctic Regions)
"How Raven Made the Tides" (Tsimshian - Pacific Northwest)
"How Coyote Was the Moon" (Kalispel - Idaho)
"How Fisher Went to the Skyland" (Anishinabe - Great Lakes Region)
"Spring Defeats Winter" (Seneca - Northeast Woodland)
"The Coming of Corn" (Cherokee - North Carolina)
"Manabozho and the Maple Trees" (Anishinabe - Great Lakes Region)
"Kokopilau, The Hump-Backed Flute Player" (Hopi - Southwest)
"How Turtle Flew South for the Winter" (Dakota - Midwest)
"Gluscabi and the Game Animals" (Abenaki - Northeast Woodland)
"Awi Usdi, The Little Deer" (Cherokee - North Carolina)
"The Origin of Death" (Siksika - Montana)
"The White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Sacred Pipe" (Lakota - Great Plains)
Keepers of the Night: Native American Stories and Nocturnal Activities for Children
"The Birth of Light" (Yuchi - Southeast)
"How the Bat Came to Be" (Anishinabe - Eastern Woodland)
"Moth, The Fire Dancer" (Paiute - Great Basin)
"Oot-Kwah-Tah, The Seven Star Dancers" (Onondaga - Eastern Woodland)
"The Creation of the Moon" (Dine - Southwest)
"Chipmunk and the Owl Sisters" (Okanagan - Plateau)
"The Great Lacrosse Game" (Menominee - Eastern Woodland)
"How Grizzly Bear Climbed the Mountain" (Shoshone - Great Basin)
Keepers of the Animals: Native American Stories and Wildlife Activities for Children
"Silver Fox and Coyote Create Earth" (Miwok - West Coast)
"How the People Hunted the Moose" (Cree - Subarctic)
"How Grandmother Spider Named the Clans" (Hopi - Southwest)
"How the Spider Symbol Came to the People" (Osage - Plains)
"The Rabbit Dance" (Mohawk - Eastern Woodland)
"The Deer Dance" (Yaqui - Southwest)
"Eagle Boy" (Zuni - Southwest)
"Turtle Races with Beaver" (Seneca - Eastern Woodland)
"Octopus and Raven" (Nootka - Pacific Northwest)
"How the Butterflies Came to Be" (Papago - Southwest)
"Salmon Boy" (Haida - Pacific Northwest)
"The Woman Who Married a Frog" (Tlingit - Pacific Northwest)
"How Poison Came Into the World" (Choctaw - Southeast)
"The Boy and the Rattlesnake" (Apache - Southwest)
"The First Flute" (Lakota - Plains)
"Manabozho and the Woodpecker" (Anishinabe - Eastern Woodland)
"Why Coyote Has Yellow Eyes" (Hopi - Southwest)
"The Dogs Who Saved Their Master" (Seneca - Eastern Woodland)
"Why Possum Has a Naked Tail" (Cherokee - Southeast)
"How the Fawn Got Its Spots" (Dakota - Plains)
"The Alligator and the Hunter" (Cherokee - Southeast)
"The Gift of the Whale" (Inuit-Inupiaq - Arctic)
"The Passing of the Buffalo" (Kiowa - Plains)
Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children
"The Corn Spirit" (Tuscarora - Eastern Woodland)
"The Sky Tree" (Huron - Eastern Woodlands)
"How Kishelemukong Made the People and the Seasons (Lenape - Eastern Woodland)
"The Thanks to the Trees" (Seneca - Eastern Woodland)
"The Circle of Life and the Clambake" (Wampanoag - Eastern Woodland)
"Fallen Star's Ears" (Cheyenne - Plains)
"Koluskap and Malsom" (Passamaquoddy - Eastern Woodland)
"Why Some Trees Are Always Green" (Cherokee - Southeast)
"The Bitterroot" (Salish - Plateau)
"Indian Summer" (Penobscot - Eastern Woodland)
"The First Basket" (Mandan - Plains)
"Blue Dawn" (Isleta Pueblo - Southwest)
"The Woman Who Lives in the Earth" (Chugach Inuit - Arctic)
"Waw Giwulk: The Center of the Basket" (O'odham - Southwest)
"How Fox Brought the Forests from the Sky" (Snoqualmie - Pacific Northwest)
"The People of Maize" (Lacandon Maya - Middle America)
"Waynabozho and the Wild Rice" (Anishinabe - Eastern Woodland)
"The Buffalo Bull and the Cedar Tree" (Osage - Plains)
There are five legends in Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families.
 
"Onenha, The Corn" (Tuscarora - Northeast)
"The Grasshopper's Song" (Zuni - Southwest)
"The Farmer Who Wanted to Be a Jaguar" (Lacandon Maya - Middle America)
"The Bean Woman" (Tutelo - Southeast)
"Sharing the Corn" (Arikara - Plains)
"Pueblo Corn Grinding Song"
Individual Stories & Collections
The Rough-Face Girl
retold by Rafe Martin (Algonquian)
Owl Eyes
retold by Frieda Gates (Mohawk)
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
retold by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac
Rainbow Crow
retold by Nancy Van Laan (Lenape)
Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun: A Cherokee Story
retold by Geri Keams
Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird
retold by Joseph Medicine Crow (Crow)
Buffalo Dance: A Blackfoot Legend
retold by Nancy Van Laan
The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman
retold by Paul Goble
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
retold by Tomie dePaola
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
retold by Gerald McDermott
you may wish to read the review of this book at American Indians in Children's Literature
The Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story
retold by Penny Pollock
Dragonfly's Tale
retold by Kristina Rodanas (Zuni)
Antelope Woman: An Apache Folktale
retold by Michael Lacapa
The Flute Player: An Apache Folktale
retold by Michael Lacapa
The Magic Hummingbird: A Hopi Folktale
retold by Michael Lomatuway'ma
The Mouse Couple: A Hopi Folktale
retold by Ekkehart Malotki
The Fire Stealers: A Hopi Story
retold by Ekkehart Malotki
Havasupai Legends: Religion and Mythology of the Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon
by Carma Lee Smithson and Robert Euler
Pia Toya: A Goshute Indian Legend
retold by the Children of Ibapah Elementary School (Goshute - Great Basin)
Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale
retold by Janet Sttevens (Ute - Great Basin)
How Raven Stole the Sun
retold by Maria Williams (Tlingit)
Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska with CD
edited by Christine Normandin (Kwakiutl)
Unikkaaqtuat: An Introduction to Inuit Myths and Legends
edited by Neil Christopher
Way Back Then
by Neil Christopher
Fish-Boy: An Inuit Folk Tale
retold by Vanita Oelschlager
The Giant Bear: An Inuit Folktale
retold by Jose Angutinngurniq
The Raven and the Loon
retold by Rachel and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley (Inuit)
Tales from the Igloo
edited and translated by Maurice Metayer
Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children
by Joseph Bruchac
The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land
by Joseph Bruchac
Mohawk - Northeast
Anishinabe - Great Lakes
Pima - Southwest
Missisquoi - Northeast
Winnebago - Great Lakes
Cochiti Pueblo - Southwest
Lenape - Eastern Woodland
Chumash - West Coast
Inuit - Subarctic
Lakota - Great Plains
Navajo - Southwest
Pawnee - Great Plains
Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places
by Joseph Bruchac
Wampanoag, Seneca, Navajo, Cherokee, Papago, Hopewell, Cheyenne, Hopi, Walapai, Abenaki
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons
by Joseph Bruchac
Northern Cheyenne, Potawatomi, Anishinabe, Cree, Huron, Seneca, Pomo, Menominee, Micmac, Cherokee,
Winnebago, Lakota Sioux, Abenaki
Indian Why Stories
by Frank Linderman
In Collections of Poetry
in Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-me Book of Poems
selected by X.J. and Dorothy Kennedy
 
"Butterfly Song"
Acoma, translated by Frances Densmore
in Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected for Boys and Girls
selected by Helen Ferris
 
"A Song of Greatness"
Chippewa, translated by Mary Austin
"The Locust"
Zuni, translated by Frank Cushing
"Little Horned Toad"
"Little Puppy"
"Burro with the Long Ears"
Navajo, translated by Hilda Faunce Wetherill
"The Grass on the Mountain"
Paiute, translated by Mary Austin
in
Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) edited by Elise Paschen
"Magic Words"
Inuit, translated by Edward Field
"I Rise, I Rise"
Osage, translator unknown
in Eric Carle's Animals Animals edited by Laura Whipple
 
"The Bear Stands"
Pawnee, translator unknown
"The Eagle"
Papago, translator unknown
in A Child's Book of Blessings compiled by Sabrina Dearborn
 
"Fire Blessing"
Pawnee, translator unknown
"Blessings from the Stars"
Passamaquoddy, translator unknown
in In Every Tiny Grain of Sand: A Child's Book of Prayers and Praise edited by Reeve Lindbergh
 
"I am Like a Bear"
Pawnee, translator unknown
"May the Sun Rise Well"
Teton Sioux, translator unknown
"May It Be Delightful My House"
Navajo, translator unknown
"The Lands Around My Dwelling"
Inuit, translator unknown
"Prayer to the Mountain Spirit"
Navajo, translator unknown
"Everything the Power of the World Does is Done in a Circle"
Black Elk, translator unknown
"Downy White Feathers"
Papago, translator unknown
"The Sun Is Slowly Departing"
Papago, translator unknown
"In the Great Night My Heart Will Go Out"
Papago, translator unknown
"We Are the Stars Which Sing"
Passamaquoddy, translator unknown
Native American Cultural Information
Indian Life in Pre-Columbian North America Coloring Book
by John Green
Northeast Asian hunters enter North America, about 12,000 B.C.
Paleoindians attacking a trapped mammoth, about 9500 B.C.
Later Paleoindians driving bison off a cliff, about 8000 B.C.
Gathering berries and shellfish, about 5000 B.C.
Men using stone tools to cold-hammer copper implements, about 3000 B.C.
Primitive village scene in the Late Archaic
The concentric embankments and mounds at Poverty Point, Louisiana, 1200 B.C.
The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, about 400 A.D.
(an oil painting of this mound is shown in Between Earth & Sky)
A Hopewell village with craftsmen at work
The major mounds at Cahokia, Illinois, about 1250 A.D.
A village scene in the Mississippian period
Artistic products of the Norton culture, Alaska, about 500 A.D.
Inuit hunters with kayak and dogsleds; the Thule tradition
The ball court at Snaketown, Arizona, about 1100 A.D.
Mogollon pithouse village in New Mexico, about 500 A.D.
Early Anasazi pit dwellings in Colorado, about 600 A.D.
Transitional Anasazi above-ground dwellings, about 800 A.D.
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, northwestern New Mexico, about 1100 A.D.
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, about 1250 A.D.
Deer hunters, Florida, 1560s
Ceremonies before going on the warpath, Florida, 1560s
Panning for gold, Appalachians, 1560s
Choctaw "lacrosse" game
Green Corn Rite of the Creek
Natchez royal funeral
North Carolina village, 1585
River camp of Northeastern Algonquians
Inside an Iroquois longhouse
Iroquois False Face ceremony
Huron dance to cure sickness, 1620
The Great Lakes area: harvesting wild rice
The Great Lakes area: a Midewiwin Society rite
The Southern Plains: a Comanche tepee village in Texas
The Central Plains: outdoor occupations in a village
The Northern Plains: the Okipa ceremony of the Mandan
The Great Basin: a Paiute encampment
The Southwest: Hopi Snake Ceremonial
The Southwest: scene in a kiva
California: Chumash village scene
Northwest Coast village scene
The Northwest Coast: a potlatch feast
The Subarctic: Kutchin hunters in winter
Indian Tribes of North America Coloring Book
by Peter Copeland
Algonkian-speaking Indians of North Carolina in 1590
Timucua Indians of 1591
New England Indians of 1665
Mohawk warriors of 1710
Iroquois warrior of 1787
Seneca Indians of 1800
Seminole Indians of 1825
Cherokees at the time of the "Trail of Tears"
Choctaw women boiling hominy
A Creek brave of 1834
Athabaskan hunters of the far North in 1846
Northern Algonkin village scene
A Huron encampment in 1845
Sauk and Fox warriors of 1834
Osage Indians of 1804
Ottawa and Chippewa warriors of 1800
An Iowa chief and woman of 1844
A Kansa brave of 1840
Pawnee tribal leaders of 1865
Indian warfare on the Great Plains
Hidatsa Dog Soldier and Assiniboin warrior of 1830
Cheyenne women at work
A travois of the Northern Plains Indians
A Comanche warrior of 1855
Crow horsemen of 1845
Apache hunters of 1840
Paiute Indians of Arizona in 1855
Navajo Indians in 1840
Mohave Indians of 1860
A Hopi pueblo
Hupa Indians of Northern California
Big Head dancers
A chief of the southern Utes, 1867
Nez Perce Indians, 1885
Naskapi hunter of 1805
Flathead Indians of 1850
Salish bowmen
Chilkat dancers
North American Indian Dances and Rituals
by Peter Copeland
Iroquois shuffle dance
Delaware skin dance, 1992
Mountain sprit dancers
Rio Grande Pueblo deer dancer
Tewa Pueblo basket dance
"The Song for Dead Warriors"
Iroquois great feather dance
Tesuque eagle dancers of the Rio Grande Pueblo
Yaqui deer dancer
Pueblo hoop dancer
Rio Grande Pueblo buffalo dance
Rio Grande Pueblo buffalo dancer and antelope dancer
Rio Grande Pueblo blue corn maiden
Bearer of the sun symbol, green corn dance
Zia clown dancers
Papago Tcirkwena dance, 1925
Corn dance, Santa Clara Pueblo
Koshare rainbow dancers of the Rio Grande Pueblo
Penobscot trading dance, 1912
Menominee war dance, 1829
Hopi snake dance, 1898
The ghost dance
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers' dance
Traditional Haida dance, 1989
Assiniboins dressed for a dance, 1870
Osage victory dance, 1868
Algonquian shaman making medicine, 1749
Iroquois medicine men
Sauk and Fox war dance, 1808
Hopi antelope priest and snake dance priest
Ivory charm of the Haida people
Chilkat dancers in old dancing costumes
Inuit seal hunt dance
Mandan medicine man
Black ogre Kachina dancer
War medicine shield
Algonquian feast dance, 1585
Thirteenth-century wooden mask
(a full-color photograph of this artifact is shown in Journey to Cahokia)
Indian Dancers Coloring Book
by O.T. Branson
Eagle Dancer - Pueblo Indian
Hoop Dancer, Buffalo Dancer - Jemez Pueblo
Deer Dancer - San Juan Pueblo
Shalako Dancer - Zuni
Manawichu Dancer - Papago Indian
Night Ceremony Dancer - Pima Indian
Chapayeka Dancer, Deer Dancer, Pascola Dancer - Yaqui Indian
Yei Dancer, Yeibichai Dancer - Navajo
Crown or Devil Dancer - Apache
Circle Dancers - Nez Perce
Sun Dancer - Plains Indians
War Dancer, Eagle Dancer - Kiowa
False Face Dance - Iroquois Indians
War Dancer - Northern Cheyenne
War Dancer - Paiute Indians
War Dancer - Sioux
Blanket Dance, Seal Mask Dance - Eskimo
False Face Dance - Onondaga Indian
Hamatsa Cannibal Bird Dance, Homatsa Dancer - Kwakiutl Indian
Echo Mask Dancer, Medicine Mask Dancer - Salash Indian
Dog Dancer - Hidatsa
Quetzale Dancer - Aztec Indians
Plains Indians Coloring Book
by David Rickman
Plains Apache, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Plains Cree, Sioux, Kansa, Mandan, Caddo, Tonkawa, Wichita, Assiniboine, Osage, Blackfoot, Iowa, Hidatsa, Crow, Plains Ojibway, Gros Ventre, Comanche, Arapaho, Kiowa, Omaha, Sioux, Oto-Missouri, Arikara, Blood, Ponca
Southeast Indians Coloring Bok
by Peter Copeland
Woodlands Indians Coloring Book
by Peter Copeland
The New England Indians
by C. Keith Wilbur
American Indian Food
by Linda Murray Berzok
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard
The Popcorn Book
by Tomie dePaola
Aztecs, Lucayan, Hu-Chunk (Winnebago), Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), Algonquins
Building an Igloo
text and photographs by Ulli Steltzer
the Native Dwellings series by Bonnie Shemie
Journey to Cahokia: A Boy's Visit to the Great Mound City
historical fiction by Albert Lorenz
When Clay Sings
by Byrd Baylor
When the Shadbush Blooms
by Carla Messinger
Lenape
Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area
by by Gabrielle Tayac
Sweetest Kulu
by Celina Kalluk
Inuit
SkySisters
by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Ojibway
Birdsong
by Julie Flett
Cree
Wild Berries
by Julie Flett
Cree
Stolen Words
by Melanie Florence
Cree
When We Were Alone
by David A. Robertson
Cree
The Star People: A Lakota Story
by S.D. Nelson
Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way
by S.D. Nelson
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story
by S.D. Nelson
A Boy Called Slow
by Joseph Bruchac
Bad River Boys: A Meeting of the Lakota Sioux with Lewis and Clark
by Virginia Driving Haw Sneve
Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
by Maria Tallchief with Rosemary Wells
Osage
A Kid's Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities
by by Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder
Grass Games & Moon Races: California Indian Games and Toys
by Jeannine Gendar
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell
Jingle Dancer
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
short video about Doris Lamar-McLemore, the last speaker of Wichita (Oklahoma)
born April 16, 1927
sadly, she passed away on August 30, 2016
short video about Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni (California)
born November 24, 1933 and still living
this is the amazing story of her dictionary project
short video of Navajo words (Four Corners region)
numbers, introducing yourself, sample text
We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers
by Julie Flett
Caribou Song (bilingual in English and Cree)
by Tomson Highway
Zoe and the Fawn
by Catherine Jameson
Okanagan animal names
The Apple Tree: A Modern Day Cherokee Story Told in English & Cherokee
by Sandy Tharp-Thee
Bowwow Powwow
by Brenda Child
Ojibwe
American Indian Youth Literature Award website
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