Paul Goble

Iktomi the trickster finds himself in a predicament after losing his eyes when he misuses a magical trick.

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.

After tricking some prairie dogs into becoming his dinner, Iktomi is himself outwitted by Coyote. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

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.

Based on a Lakota myth in which a mysterious woman returns the buffalo and the other animals to the Indian people.

Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling.

Two friends go out hunting for horses--but only one returns--in this story based in the Lakota Indian tradition.

A Blackfoot Indian legend in which six neglected orphaned brothers decide to go to the Above World where they become the constellation of the "Lost Children," or Pleiades.

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

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