Nature Science and Native American Legends
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
The Main
Lesson Book and Daily Lesson 2
Finding Other Appropriate Stories 3
The Trickster Archetype 3
Illustrations
in Crayon 4
Legends and Nature
Science Lessons
Hunting
the Great Bear 6
The Origin
of the Milky Way 10
Sosondowah
and the Morning Star 12
The Four
Winds 15
The Length
of Winter 17
Kluskap
Finds the Summer 19
Mountain
Ancestor and Ik-to-mi's Blanket 21
Ik-to-mi,
the Peacock, the Arrow and the Fawn 22
How
Muskrat Tricked Ik-to-mi 26
The Quail
Tribe Fools Coyote 28
How Moose
Helped the Cree 30
The
Rattlesnake's Fangs 32
Second
Summer 34
The Corn
Maiden 36
The Spirit
of the Corn 39
Maple
Trees and Syrup 41
The Great
Bird and the Strong Wind 43
The Boy
who became a Deer 45
How Snake
Brought Rain to the Shoshone 47
Grandmother
Spider and the Sun 50
What is
Strongest? 52
The Story
of Jumping Mouse 54