 | Native American Tales |
| The Native American storytelling tradition is oral, not written. Simply by writing them down, the stories change. Readers should also be aware that some published "Indian legends" are reinterpretations that stray significantly from the traditional stories. In this list, we have done our best to collect authentic North American Indian tales, noting the tribe or nation from which the tale originates. | |
Picture Books (JE)
| De Montaño | Coyote in Love with a Star (Potawatomi) |
| Goble | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Cheyenne) |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Eagle | Full Moon Stories: Thirteen Native American Legends (Arapahoe) |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| J398.2 Beaver | Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story |
| J398.2 Begay | Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: A Traditional Navajo Story |
| J398.2 Bernhard | Spotted Eagle & Black Crow: A Lakota Legend |
| J398.2 Bruchac | How Chipmunk Got His Stripes: A Tale of Bragging and Teasing (Cherokee, Abenaki, and Mohawk) |
| J398.2 Bruchac | The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales (Various) |
| J398.2 Bruchac | Turtle's Race with Beaver: A Traditional Seneca Story |
| J398.2 Cohen | The Mud Pony: A Traditional Skidi Pawnee Tale |
| J398.2 Crespo | How the Sea Began: A Taino Myth |
| J398.2 Duncan | The Magic of the Spider Woman (Navajo) |
| J398.2 Duvall | Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting: A Traditional Cherokee Legend |
| J398.2 Esbensen | The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale |
| J398.2 Goble | Star Boy (Blackfoot) |
| J398.2 Harrell | How Thunder and Lightning Came To Be: A Choctaw Legend |
| J398.2 James | The Woman Who Married a Bear (Alaskan and Yukon tribes) |
| J398.2 Johnston | The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (Zapotec) |
| J398.2 Larry | Peboan and Seegwun (Anichinabe/Ojibwe) |
| J398.2 Lelooska | Spirit of the Cedar People: More Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska (Kwakiutl) |
| J398.2 Lewis | Storm Boy (Haida) |
| J398.2 London | Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale About How Fire Came to the People |
| J398.2 Luenn | Miser on the Mountain: A Nisqually Legend of Mount Rainier |
| J398.2 Martin | The Boy Who Lived with the Seals (Chinook) |
| J398.2 McDermott | Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest |
| J398.2 Medicine Story | The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales |
| J398.2 Menchu | The Honey Jar (Mayan) |
| J398.2 Montejo | The Bird Who Cleans the World: and Other Mayan Fables |
| J398.2 Morgan | Supper for Crow: A Northwest Coast Indian Tale |
| J398.2 Norman | Trickster and the Fainting Birds (Algonquian) |
| J398.2 Oliviero | The Day the Sun Was Stolen (Haida) |
| J398.2 Pia | Pia Toya: A Goshute Indian Legend (Recorded by Ibapah [Utah] Elementary School) |
| J398.2 Pijoan | White Wolf Woman: Native American Transformation Myths (Various) |
| J398.2 Powell | Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved (Navajo; bilingual text) |
| J398.2 Renner | The Girl Who Swam with the Fish: An Athabascan Legend |
| J398.2 Ross | How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Trickster Stories |
| J398.2 Ross | How Turtle's Back was Cracked: A Traditional Cherokee Tale |
| J398.2 RunningWolf | On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians |
| J398.2 Savard | First Spring: An Innu Tale of North America |
| J398.2 Simms | The Bone Man: A Native American Modoc Tale |
| J398.2 Sloat | The Hungry Giant of the Tundra (Yupik) |
| J398.2 Songs | The Songs My Paddle Sings: Native American Legends (Various; collected by Riordan) |
| J398.2 Steptoe | The Story of Jumping Mouse: A Native American Legend (Great Plains) |
| J398.2 Stevens | Coyote Steals the Blanket: An Ute Tale |
| J398.2 Taylor | All the Stars in the Sky: Native Stories from the Heavens (Various) |
| J398.2 Taylor | How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began (Various) |
| J398.2 Taylor | Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople: Native Stories of Other Worlds (Various) |
| J398.2 Taylor | When Bear Stole the Chinook: A Siksika Tale |
| J398.2 Tingle | When Turtle Grew Feathers: A Folktale from the Choctaw Nation |
| J398.2 Yamane | The Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Other Ohlone Stories |
| J398.2 Yellow Robe | Tonweya and the Eagles, and Other Lakota Indian Tales |
| J398.2 Zitkala-Sa | Dance in a Buffalo Skull (Sioux) |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 3/10 |