Rabbit's attempts to show off for his friend, Otter, lead him into trouble when he lassos a giant wood duck that flies off with Rabbit still hanging on to the rope.
When humans begin to hunt animals, the animals hold councils and decided to protect themselves by harming the people, but the plants, knowing that people took care of them, find a way to help.
A blend of two Cherokee folktales, in which the Cherokee trickser rabbit Ji-Stu journeys to a treacherous forest in a strange land, hoping to be transformed into a singer even better than Redbird.
When Rabbit becomes jealous of Otter's beautiful coat, which causes his own beautiful tail to be ignored, he plots to steal the coat and become popular again.
