How the World Was Made: A Cherokee Story

How the World Was Made: A Cherokee StoryHow the World Was Made is a traditional Cherokee creation story. It takes place during a time when animals did many of the things that people can do. When the earth was young, the animals lived on a rock above it, and the earth was covered with water. The animals needed more room, but where could they find it? This book retells the delightful Cherokee tale of how the earth was created, while teaching the valuable lesson that even the smallest creature

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The Dakota language owes much of its expansiveness to its verbs

as well as his life’s fleeting but nonetheless crucial moments of happiness and hope

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including chapters on child rearing

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and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment

That sense of natural motion in a haiku scene is a wonder

Northrup reveals his own personal trials and the struggles of his community in fictional sketches and poetic anecdotes

Deloria saw how some of these scientific "facts"