Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to living among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

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

A Blackfoot Indian legend in which six neglected orphaned brothers decide to go to the Above World where they become the constellation of the "Lost Children," or Pleiades.

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

Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows.

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

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.

A collection of short stories told in the traditional style of the Native American peoples.

Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.