Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children

by Mabel Powers

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Contents

1. Acknowledgment
2. Foreword
3. How the Stories Came to Be
4. Why I Was Called the Story-Teller
5. The Little People
6. Story-Telling Time
7. How the Iroquois Give Thanks
8. A Firemaker and a Peacemaker
9. How the White Man Came
10. Why the Eagle Defends Americans
11. How the Turkey Buzzard Got His Suit
12. Why the Partridge Drums
13. How the Indians Learned to Heal
14. Why Hermit Thrush Is So Shy
15. How Good and Evil Came to Be
16. How a Boy Was Cured of Boasting
17. Why the Cuckoo Is So Lazy
18. How the Coon Outwitted the Fox
19. Why the Goldfinches Look Like the Sun
20. What the Ash and the Maple Learned
21. How the Woman Overcame the Bear
22. Why the Woodpecker Bores for Its Food
23. Why the Ice Roof Fell
24. Why the Chipmunk Has Black Stripes
25. How Two Indian Boys Settled a Quarrel
26. How Mice Overcame the Warriors
27. Why Crows Are Poor
28. Why the Indian Loves His Dog
29. Greedy Fawn and the Porridge
30. Why Hounds Outrun Other Animals
31. Why Indians Never Shoot Pigeons
32. How Old Man Winter Was Driven Back
33. Why Lightning Sometimes Strikes
34. Why the Hare Has a Split Lip and Short Tail
35. Corn Plume and Bean Maiden
36. How the Robin Burned His Breast
37. How Morning Star Lost Her Fish
38. How Little Shooter Lost His Luck
39. How an Indian Boy Won His Name
40. How the Fairies Worked Magic

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