legends

An easy-to-read Jamaican folk tale featuring Anansi the spider.

Stories and fables of two prairie Indian tribes, the Poncas and the Kiowas, about a character who was half medicine man and half trickster and how he affected the lives of various animals and other Indians who lived on the prairie.

An illustrated collection of over thirty tales and legends from the Alaska Eskimos.

A history of totem poles and a discussion of the tribes that used them. Includes some stories told on these tall wood columns.

Retells ten traditional myths from various northwest coast Indian tribes.

A collection of animal legends from the Hopi, Pawnee, Chinook, Chippewa, Iroquois, and Cherokee Indians.

Indian legends from six Central and South American tribes. A brief history of each tribe precedes each story.

A retelling of the legend in which Summer and Winter came to share the rule of Canada.

Twenty folk tales explaining the creation of the world, how the pine nuts came, how the Indians got their music, and other traditions.