What makes thunder rumble across the land? How did the earth begin? What causes tornadoes, ice storms, floods? How did daylight come to the earth?
Natural phenomena were mysteries to ancient people, including Native Americans, who occupied the land of the United States long before European settlers arrived. To explain these happenings, the Indians created fanciful stories about them and told them from one generation to the next, often sharing them with visitors and people of other tribes.
In the same pattern as Star Tales: North American Indian Stories About the Stars, artist and writer Gretchen Mayo retells with wry humor sixteen Indian tales about earth happenings and illustrates them with her sensitive and evocative drawings. Each one begins with an introduction that explains its origins.
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