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The Great Spirit gives the sacred dog to an Indian boy seeking relief for his hungry people.

At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their custom.

After caring for an old abandoned horse, a poor young Pawnee boy is rewarded by the horse's mystic powers.

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

A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.

23 traditional Plains Indian stories.

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

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.