Goble, Paul

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Iktomi and the berries

a Plains Indian story
1992
Relates Iktomi's fruitless efforts to pick some buffalo berries.

The great race of the birds and animals

1991
A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question of whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.

The earth made new

Plains Indian stories of creation
2009
An illustrated retelling of the Plains Indians myth that describes how the "Earth Maker" asks the birds and animals for help to rebuild all the land that has been covered by water.

love flute

1997
A gift to a shy young man from the birds and animals helps him to express his love to a beautiful girl.

Her seven brothers

1993
Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.

The girl who loved wild horses

1986
Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

The legend of the White Buffalo Woman

1998
A Lakota Indian legend in which the White Buffalo Woman presents her people with the Sacred Calf Pipe which gives them the means to pray to the Great Spirit.

Remaking the earth

a creation story from the Great Plains of North America
1996
In this Algonquin "Earth Diver" creation myth, woven from the ideas of several traditional tales, the water birds and animals left behind when the old world was flooded dive for mud so that the Creator can make dry land again.

Adopted by the eagles

a Plains Indian story of friendship and treachery
1994
Two friends go out hunting for horses--but only one returns--in this story based in the Lakota Indian tradition.

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