Paul Goble

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

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

Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling.

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

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.

An account from the Indian point of view of the events of the worst defeat the United States Army suffered at the hands of the Indians.

Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.

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.

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

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.