Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends / edited by Margot Edmonds and Ella Clark

Chartwell, 2021. Pictorial hardcover. VG. 

This wonderfully appealing anthology gathers more than 130 Native American legends, many told to the authors by elder storytellers and
tribal historians. The legends feature a broad array of mythical figures, such as Thunderbird, Coyote, and Raven, as well as human-like characters “The
Girl Who Married the Moon” and “Two Brothers Who Became Stars.”

Organized by region—with tales from the Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, Southeast, and Northeast—the legends are drawn from many tribes, including the Wasco, Aleut, Apache, Yosemite, Cheyenne, Sioux, Hopi, Navajo, Chippewa, Cherokee and others, and are introduced by an informative headnote, accompanied by a variety of evocative line-art drawings. The stories include:
 

• The Bridge of the Gods, Wasco
• Raven’s Great Adventure, Alaska
• Song of the Horses, Navaho
• Origin of Fire, Jicarilla-Apache
• The Corn Ceremony, Hidatsa
• The Great Serpent and the Great Flood, Chippewa-Ojibwa
• The Origin of Earth, Tuskegee
• The Legend of the Bear Family, Penobscot
• The Origin of the Iroquois Nations, Iroquois