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How the Spider Came To Be


Long, long ago, when the Earth was new, there lived in a certain village a woman who was a very skilled weaver. Her weaving became known throughout the village and the other village people came to her to have her weave their baskets, blankets and wall-hangings. And so it was that she became proud and began to imagine herself the finest weaver in the village.


As time passed, her reputation as a fine weaver began to extend beyond her village, and people from ot… Continue

The Story of Little Wolf

By Lelana Buckwalter

July 8, 2006




Many, many years ago, there was a young woman named Little Wolf. She was a member of the Munsee people in what is now Pennsylvania. She had her eye on a boy from a neighboring village and hoped that someday he would ask her father to marry her.

One evening, her father came to her and said, “Little Wolf, a young man, named Tall Tree, of the Unilachtigo people has come to ask you to marry him. I have given him my permission and the… Continue

Legend Of Wolf Boy
A Kiowa Legend



There was a camp of Kiowa. There were a young man, his wife, and his
brother. They set out by themselves to look for game. This young man
would leave his younger brother and his wife in camp and go out to
look for game. Every time his brother would leave, the boy would go
to a high hill nearby and sit there all day until his brother
returned.

One time before the boy went as usual to the hill, his
sister-in-law said, "Why are you so lonesome?" Let us be
sweet… Continue

The Pretty Maiden - Lenni Lenape



There was once a young woman who was very pretty. All the young men greatly admired her and wished her for their wife, but the young woman spurned all their advances and would have no suitor.
Seeing this, the animals, Tamakwa (Beaver), Shikak (Skunk), and Kukhus (Owl), held council about the pretty maiden. They said to each other, "I sure would like to have this woman for my wife."
Owl said, "If we try really hard, one of us will surely have this woman for a w… Continue

HOW BIG-FOOT GOT HIS NAME (Lakota) (Told by John Blunt-horn.)


In the moon, when the leaves fall, in the year when many stars fell, a war party of twenty men went on the warpath against the Pawnee. A small orphan boy wanted to go with them, but as he was only nine years old, they refused him at first. He begged them so to go that they finally consented, and he went with them. They were all armed with bows and arrows except two men who had guns they had traded for with the Hudson Bay Fur Company… Continue