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Title The wonderful sky boat : and other Native American tales of the Southeast / [compiled by] Jane Louise Curry ; illustrated by James Watts.

Publication Info. New York : Margaret McElderry Books, 2001.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  J 398.2 CUR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J398 WON    Check Shelf
Description 142 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The creation of the world (Yuchi) -- The crying place (Caddo) -- First Woman (Catawba) -- The great flood (Chitimacha) -- Stonecoat (Yamassee/Cherokee) -- The coming of corn (Choctaw) -- The 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) -- The girl who married a star (Caddo) -- How men first played the game of ball (Apalachee) -- The ice man (Cherokee) -- Lodge boy, wild boy, and the monster woman (Creek) -- Keeper of the animals (Cherokee) -- The three owls (Tunica) -- The wonderful sky boat (Alabama) -- The old people who turned into bears (Chitimacha) -- Panther and little sister (Creek) -- The country under the water (Tunica).
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.8 4.0 55212.
Subject Folklore -- Southern States.
Genre/Form Juvenile materials.
Subject Tales -- Southern States.
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Folklore.
Indian mythology -- Southern States.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Southern States -- Folklore.
Spirituality -- Indigenous -- Southern States.
Added Author Curry, Jane Louise.
ISBN 0689835957
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