Father and Mother Eagle take a Navajo boy to the country of the clouds where, though he allows Coyote to trick him, he learns the healing ways of eagles.
One day Bear reaches up into the sky, steals Sun, and buries him in a cave. It is up to brave Ts'ina dabju to rescue Sun and save the world from the dark and cold.
Shin buys his friend Tasuke's dream from him and goes in search of the predicted fortune, only to be disappointed until, upon returning home, he receives a wonderful surprise.
Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.