Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends

Learn about the rich history of North America through the legends and tales of those who inhabited the land first in Voices of the Winds.

This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and

tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote, and Raven, as well as human-like characters The

Girl Who Married the Moon and Two Brothers Who Became Stars.

Organized by region–with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, and Northeast–the legends are drawn from many tribes, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a variety of evocative line-art drawings. The stories include:

The Bridge of the Gods, Wasco Raven’s Great Adventure, Alaska Song of the Horses, Navaho Origin of Fire, Jicarilla-Apache The Corn Ceremony, Hidatsa The Great Serpent and the Great Flood, Chippewa-Ojibwa The Origin of Earth, Tuskegee The Legend of the Bear Family, Penobscot The Origin of the Iroquois Nations, Iroquois

Get to know the first peoples of North America through these stories from their rich oral traditions.