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Title:
The wonderful sky boat : and other Native American tales of the Southeast
Author:
Curry, Jane Louise.
Publication Information:
New York : Margaret McElderry Books, 2001.
Physical Description:
142 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Creation of the world / Yuchi -- Crying place / Caddo -- First Woman / Catawba -- Great flood / Chitimacha -- Stonecoat / Yamasse, Cherokee -- Coming of corn / Choctaw -- Rabbit who stole fire / Seminole -- Rabbit's horse / Creek -- Rabbit and wildcat / Natchez -- How rabbit stole otter's coat / Cherokee -- How alligator's nose was broken / Seminole -- Heron and hummingbird / Hitchiti -- Bigfoot bird / Eastern Cherokee -- Opossum and her children / Koasati -- Fox and crawfish / Natchez -- How the biters and stingers got their poison / Choctaw -- Why the buzzard is bald / Biloxi -- Girl who married a star / Caddo -- How men first played the game of ball / Apalachee -- Ice man / Cherokee -- Lodge boy, wild boy, and the monster woman / Creek -- Keeper of the animals / Cherokee -- Three owls / Tunica -- Wonderful sky boat / Alabama -- Old people who turned into bears / Chitimacha -- Panther and little sister / Creek -- Country under the water / Tunica.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 4.0 55212.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780689835957
Format :
Book