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The First Fire: Stories of the Cherokee, Kickapoo, Kiowa, and Tigua »

Authors: Jane Archer
ISBN-13: 9781589792012, ISBN-10: 1589792017
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The colorful pageantry of four powerful nations come alinve in Jane Archer's vivid narration of myth and history.

	Cherokee
	The first fire	2
	Origin of disease and medicine	3
	The daughter of the sun	7
	The deluge	10
	Rabbit trims possum's tail	11
	Rabbit and turtle race	13
	Rabbit steals otter's coat	15
	How deer got antlers	17
	Why the teeth of deer are blunt	18
	Wildcat caught gobbler	20
	The birds and animals play ball	21
	Ice man returns	23
	Spearfinger	25
	The red man of the lightning	27
	The underground panthers	28
	Lightning and the gambler	30
	The man who married thunder's sister	35
	The star feathers	39
	Messenger wren	40
	Kickapoo
	A sister saves her brother	58
	Rabbit fools lynx	63
	Strong medicine	66
	The man and the manitou	79
	Kiowa
	Spider grandmother and the flood	98
	Spider grandmother and sun boy	98
	Red horse	105
	Buffalo old woman	106
	Deer-charming boy	108
	Saynday hunts with the pack	111
	Saynday throws his eyes	112
	Saynday learns from eagle	115
	Saynday talks with ant	116
	Saynday mocks quail	116
	Saynday taunts wildcat	117
	Saynday trapped by mice	120
	Saynday cheats the white man	121
	The lost girl	122
	Son of the chief	124
	Buffalo kills white bear	127
	The end of the world	130
	Tigua of Isleta Del Sur Pueblo
	The great flood	142
	The moon maiden	142
	The man who married the moon	144
	The first of the rattlesnakes	153
	Creator of all medicine	158
	The war dance of the mice	162
	The three bears	164
	Coyote visits woodpecker	166
	Coyote and rabbit race	169
	Coyote and the blackbirds	171
	Coyote and bear farm	172
	Coyote and little-blue-fox	174