First peoples, shared stories: anthology of new & classic tales

Foreword / Paula Morris - Publisher's note -- Introduction / Dr. Eldon Yellowhron --

An unwanted two-spirit (Nigeria) / Chukwu Sunday Abel --

The man who lost himself (Nigeria) / Chukwu Sunday Abel --

The creation story of the four suns (Aztec) --

Xolotil creates the parents of mankind (Aztec) --

Manco Capac founds Cuzco (Inca) --

Anansi, the world, and the stories (Akan/Caribbean/Black British) / Laura Barker --

Musoke the moon-boy (Uganda) --

The story of Nsangi and the apes (Uganda) --

Goso, the teacher (Zanzibar, Tanzanian Coast) --

Potter's field (Māori, Ngati Mutunga) / Shelley Burne-Field --

Sunset on Mars (Fiji) / Gina Cole --

Mythology of Mindanao (The Philippines) --

Legend and song of the daughter and the slave (The Ndau tribe of Eastern Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi) --

The winning of Halai Auna at the house of Tuina (Yana people, Native American) --

The finding of fire (Yana people, Native American) --

The boy hunter who never sacrificed to the deer he had slain, or The origin of the Society of Rattlesnakes (Zuni people, Native American) --

Of the pretty girl and the seven jealous women (Southern Nigeria) --

The fate of Essido and his evil companions (Southern Nigeria) --

Finding home (Gumbaynggirr people) / Kylie Fennell --

The fable of the origin of the people of Peru (Inca) / Pedro Sarmient de Gamboa --

Sinking cities (Nahua and Yaqui Nations, Mexico) / Sophie Garcia --

Grass dancer (Native American) / Owl Goingback --

The first Tui Tonga (Tonga) --

The origin of the Magellan Clouds (Tonga) --

Scarface (Blackfeet Nation, Native American) --

Origin of the medicine pipe (Blackfeet Nation, Native American) --

Imitate (Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, Native American) / Shane Hawk --

Whole (Igbo) / Somto Ibezue --

The mother of the world (Native American) --

The Wahconda's son (Native American) --

The origin of women (Native American) --

Hua, King of Hana (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua --

Kelea, the surf-rider of Maui (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua --

Kaala, the flower of Lanai (Hawaii) / His Hawaiian Majesty Kalakaua --

Little pieces of flint (Monacan Indian Nation, Native American) / D.K. Lawhorn --

The story of creation (Pina people, Native American) --

The story of the flood (Pina people, Native American) --

The call of ancestors (Zimbabwe) / Tsitsi Mapepa --

Yeredzo River (Zimbabwe) / Tsitsi Mapepa --

Morena-Y-A-Letsatsi, or the Sun Chief (Lesotho, Southern Africa) --

How Ah-Hā'-Le stole the sun for the Valley People (Native American) --

The birth of Wek'-Wek and the creation of man (Hool-poom'-ne tribe, Native American) --

Buuts' ka luuk' (Mexico) / Arnoldo Millán Zubia --

Three princesses (Māori) / Paula Morris --

Red Christmas (Māori) / Paula Morris --

A mother's lament (Comanche Nation) / Weyodi OldBear --

Biter's tale (Comanche Nation) / Weyodi OldBear --

Goonur, the woman-doctor (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) --

The legend of the Pleiades (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) --

A Mayan story (Guatemala) / Claudia Recinos Seldeen --

Māui tames the sun (Māori) --

The creation (Māori) --

The coming of kūmara (Māori) --

Patupaiarehe (Māori) --

Taniwha (Māori) --

Denizens of the sea (Māori) --

A short history, purporting to give the origin of the Hausa Nation and the story of their conversion to the Mohammedan Religion (Hausa people, Nigeria) / Maalam Shaihua --

How brothers and sisters first came to quarrel and hate each other (Hausa people, Nigeria) / Maalam Shaihua --

Creation story of the Mixtecs (Aztec) --

The Mayan creation story (Maya) --

The myth of Huathiacuri (Inca) --

A story of the rise and fall of the Toltecs (Aztec) --

The creation of the third book (Maya) --

King Gumbi and his lost daughter (Manyema people of the Congo) --

The adventures of Saruti (The Congo and Central Africa) --

The search for the home of the sun -- (The Congo and Central Africa) --

Nunda the Slayer and origin of the One-Eyed (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa) --

Binti Ali the Clever (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa) --

Lila and Fila (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa) --

The Wakilindi saga : Mbega, a child of ill omen (Swahili-speaking peoples, East Africa) --

How the moon first came into the sky (Nigeria and Cameroon) / kun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people --

How sun and moon went up to the sky (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people --

How the first rain came (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people --

How all the rivers first came on Earth (Nigeria and Cameroon) / Okun Asere of Mfamosing, of the Ekoi people --

When angels come knocking (Curve Lake First Nations) / Drew Hayden Taylor --

funeral fire (Chippewa tribe, Native American)

The snail and the beaver (Osage Nation, Native American)

The three sisters (Abenaki Nation, Native American) /

Brigit Truex --

Beaver's tail (Abenaki Nation, Native American) / Brigit Truex --

Woodchuck winter (Abenaki Nation, Native American) / Brigit Truex --

Confusion of tongue (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

The Gherawhar (Goanna) (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

Whowie (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

Why all the animals peck at the selfish owl : the coming of the light (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

The water rat who discovered the secret of fire and how it was taken from him by the eagle hawk (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

A wonderful bun bar rang (Lizard) (Ngarrindjeri, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) / David Unaipon --

Mexpakinté : the shadow woman (Tzotzil, Mexico) / Pedro Vázquez Luna --

Glade of the uncles (Monacan Indian Nation) / Jay Hansford C. Vest --

Snow blindness (Mi'kmaw and Passamaquoddy) / Laika Wallace --

The girls who wanted new teeth (Banyarwanda people, Rwanda) --

The thunder's bride (Banyarwanda people, Rwanda) --

Kwege and Bahati (Zaramo people, Tanzania) --

The tale of Murile (Chaga people, Tanzania)

Biographies & sources.