How Coyote Stole the Summer

How Coyote Stole the Summer
Author:
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1580138489

Describes how coyote and five other animals, tired of winter, were able to steal summer from Old Woman, but when summer breaks out and they are finally caught, coyote and Old Woman agree to split summer for half a year between them.

Coyote and the Sky

Coyote and the Sky
Author: Emmett Shkeme Garcia
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780826337306

Tells the Indian creation myth of how the Animal People created the sun, moon, and stars.

Coyote Steals the Summer

Coyote Steals the Summer
Author: John Heath
Publisher:
Total Pages: 31
Release: 1997
Genre: Children's plays
ISBN: 9781886588080

WHAT IT IS: This fun musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: Oh, no! Summer is trapped inside a tipi at the snow's edge! "Coyote Steals the Summer" reveals how Coyote rescues Summer and earns his famous gift of trickery as a reward. This delightful story from the Crow Nation is a wonderful way to introduce students to Native American cultures and folk tales from around the world. 15 minutes; grades 1-4. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Coyote Steals the Summer" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!

Coyote as the Sun and Other Stories

Coyote as the Sun and Other Stories
Author: Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
Publisher: Kamloops, B.C. : Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
Total Pages: 54
Release: 1993
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780921235217

Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun

Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun
Author: Geri Keams
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780613496728

For use in schools and libraries only. After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

How Raven Stole the Sun

How Raven Stole the Sun
Author: Maria Williams
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0789201631

A long time ago, Raven was pure white, like fresh snow in winter. This was so long ago that the only light came from campfires, because a greedy chief kept the stars, moon, and sun locked up in elaborately carved boxes. Determined to free them, the shape-shifting Raven resourcefully transformed himself into the chief's baby grandson and cleverly tricked him into opening the boxes and releasing the starlight and moonlight. Though tired of being stuck in human form, Raven maintained his disguise until he got the chief to open the box with the sun and flood the world with daylight, at which point he gleefully transformed himself back into a raven. When the furious chief locked him in the house, Raven was forced to escape through the small smokehole at the top — and that's why ravens are now black as smoke instead of white as snow. This engaging Tlingit story is brought to life in painterly illustrations that convey a sense of the traditional life of the Northwest Coast peoples. About the Tales of the People series: Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.

Coyote in Love With a Star

Coyote in Love With a Star
Author: Marty Kreipe DeMontano
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0789201623

Coyote gets lonely in the wide-open spaces of the Potawatomi Reservation in Kansas, so he moves to New York City in search of work and a special friend. There he quickly gets himself a job as Rodent Control Officer at the World Trade Center. But he is always homesick, so at the end of the day, he escapes the crowds and hurry of the city by going up to the top of the tower to enjoy the quiet night skies. And one night he spots a star more beautiful than all of the others. . . . This original story centers on the Prarie Band Potawatomi, who were displaced several times from their original territory in the Great Lakes region to eventually be relocated in Kansas under the Indian Removal Act. Today, there are several bands of Potawatomi located in Wisconsin, Michigan, Oklahoma, and in Ontario, Canada. About the Tales of the People series Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different Indian languages.