Paul Goble

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

A young hunter marries a female buffalo in the form of a beautiful maiden, but when his people reject her he must pass several tests before being allowed to join the buffalo nation.

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

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

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.

A gift to a shy young man from the birds and animals helps him to express his love to a beautiful girl.

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

After outwitting some ducks, Iktomi, the Indian trickster, is outwitted by Coyote.

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.

When two Plains Indian children become lost, they are cared for and guided safely home by a friendly wolf.