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Product Description: "A long time ago, all the animals and people lived happily together," begins this story of the origins of Cherokee herbal medicine. As the people begin to outnumber the animals and then to hunt them for their hides and meat, the days of peaceful coexistence are over...read more
Hardcover:
9780826330079 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When humans begin to hunt animals, the animals hold councils and decided to protect themselves by harming the people, but the plants, knowing that people took care of them, find a way to help.
Paperback:
9780826330086 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "A long time ago, all the animals and people lived happily together," begins this story of the origins of Cherokee herbal medicine.
Product Description: Have you ever seen an opossum, hurrying across the road with its eyes and coat shining in your headlights? Or hanging upside down from a tree? Or lying on the ground 'playing possum' as if dead? And did you ever wonder why the opossum acts this way? The ancient Cherokee people wondered about the opossum, whose silly grin and hairless tail caught their imagination...read more
Hardcover:
9780826336941 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $16.95
Paperback:
9780826336958 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Have you ever seen an opossum, hurrying across the road with its eyes and coat shining in your headlights?
Product Description: "The power of the bones!" Ji-Stu the Rabbit sings along as he dances around the fire with a flock of shiny ravens. The ravens have traveled a great distance to visit Ji-Stuâs forest, and Ji-Stu is pleased to learn that he alone is invited to their dance...read more
Hardcover:
9780826347237 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "The power of the bones!
Hardcover:
9780826341815 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ji-Stu the rabbit and Wildcat travel far to the north in search of beautiful red and blue feathers, and when they arrive at the right spot, the birds there invite them to join their ball game.
Hardcover:
9780826336910 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sa-lo-li the Squirrel knows the secret of how to plant the trees in the forest and she agrees to let Ji-Stu the Rabbit help her work, when suddenly they are seen by the Wimpus Cat.
Product Description: In this sixth volume of the Grandmother Stories, Murv Jacob and Deborah Duvall blend two ancient Cherokee tales into an adventure story. Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster Rabbit, sets out to prove that he can magically be transformed into a great singer whose voice will rival that of Redbird...read more
Hardcover:
9780826335630 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this sixth volume of the Grandmother Stories, Murv Jacob and Deborah Duvall blend two ancient Cherokee tales into an adventure story.
Product Description: Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decides to visit his old friend Otter, who lives up the river. Along the way, he sees a huge wood duck sitting on the water and instantly recognizes the Chief of All the Wood Ducks, who is surrounded by hundreds of smaller ducks...read more
Hardcover:
9780826333360 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decides to visit his old friend Otter, who lives up the river.
Hardcover:
9780826331311 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Bored on a fall afternoon, Rabbit accompanies Bear when he sets off for the mountain where all the bears spend the winter in hibernation.
Paperback:
9780930407612 | Parabola Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of traditional Iroquois tales in which animals learn about the importance of caring and responsibility and the dangers of selfishness and pride.
Library:
9780060212889 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Presents a collection of traditional Iroquois tales in which animals learn about the importance of caring and responsibility and the dangers of selfishness and pride
Prebinding:
9780613987219, titled "Boy Who Lived With The Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $23.25 | About this edition: Presents a collection of traditional Iroquois tales in which animals learn about the importance of caring and responsibility and the dangers of selfishness and pride.
Hardcover:
9780060212858 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster
Paperback:
9780930407605 | Parabola Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster.
Library:
9780060212865 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1994, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster
Hardcover:
9780826330109 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Rabbit becomes jealous of Otter's beautiful coat, which causes his own beautiful tail to be ignored, he plots to steal the coat and become popular again.
Hardcover:
9780826329134 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Bear and Terrapin tell two small furry animals that they cannot compete in the important stickball game between the animals and the birds, the two are welcomed by the birds, who find a way for them to fly.
Hardcover:
9780803718975 | Dial Books for Young Readers, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A young Indian boy sets in motion a daring plan to diminish the power of the 'Windigo,' a ferocious stone creature who comes to the forest of his North Woodlands village
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9780803718982 | Dial Books for Young Readers, November 1, 1996, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A young Indian boy sets in motion a daring plan to diminish the power of the 'Windigo,' a ferocious stone creature who comes to the forest of his North Woodlands village
Hardcover:
9780816740123 | Troll Communications Llc, November 1, 1996, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fourteen poems with themes of thanksgiving and appreciation of nature, based in part on traditional Native American songs and prayers.
Hardcover:
9780816738434 | Bridgewater Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of traditional Native American tales celebrating the wonder and mystery of the natural world, arranged under the categories 'Fire,' 'Earth,' 'Water,' and 'Air'
Hardcover:
9781555912284 | Fulcrum Pub, September 1, 1995, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A series of stories, set in the northern New England ten thousand years ago, about the special relationship between the Abenaki people and the dogs who were their faithful friends.
Paperback:
9780813657684 | Modern Curriculum Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $10.47
Hardcover:
9780803717282 | Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways
Library:
9780803717299 | Dial Books for Young Readers, March 1, 1995, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways
Reinforced:
9780606075268 | Demco Media, February 1, 1995, cover price $12.10 | About this edition: A collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit
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