Native American Animal Stories

by Joseph Bruchac

Book Overview

The stories Joseph Bruchac writes about-coming from Mohawk, Hopi, Yaqui, Haida, and other cultures-demonstrate the power of animals in Native American traditions. Parents, teachers, and children will... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555911277
• ISBN13: 9781555911270
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Missing pages

My daughter and I loved reading the stories with her homeschool curriculum; however, there were two stories where entire pages were ripped out and missing. I had to search online for them.

Native animal stories

This could have been a much longer book, since there is an almost endless number of Native American stories dealing with animals. Bruchac made a good selection, though, and the stories of a wide variety of North American native peoples are represented here. All of them show the importance of animals to the Native Americans in that they are central to creation myths, as well as tales of friendship and those providing numerous survival instructions. Bruchac kept the prose simple, making this book ideal for children. Also useful is the glossary at the end, and the descriptions of tribal nations which provide a great deal of useful information on the major North American peoples.