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The flute player

an Apache folktale
1990
Story of a young Apache boy and girl who are reunited by the boy's flute playing.

Eagle boy

a traditional Navajo legend
1996
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.

The day Sun was stolen

1995
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.

The bee and the dream

a Japanese tale
1996
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.

Monster Birds

a Navajo folktale
1993
Twelve-year-old twins use their weapons, lightning arrows and magic feathers, to defend their village from the Monster Birds.

How Iwariwa the cayman learned to share

1995
The animals in the Amazon rainforest find a way to trick Iwariwa the cayman into sharing the fire he uses to cook his food.

The flying tortoise

an Igbo tale
1994
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.

Jackal's flying lesson

a Khoikhoi tale
1995
With the help of a blue crane, a mother dove rescues her babies from a not-so-clever jackal.

How Turtle's back was cracked

a traditional Cherokee tale
1995
Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

How thunder and lightning came to be

a Choctaw legend
1995
Two very large and silly birds accidentally create thunder and lightning as a way to warn the Choctaw people of coming rainstorms.

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