Native American Legends

How Kluskap made the Birds

A Micmac Legend Kluskap delighted in the great variety of beautiful leaves of the fall. He looked forward each season...

A Passamaquoddy Legend This is a truly old Indian story from ancient times. Once, an Indian was whirled up by...

A Cherokee Legend An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he...

A Choctaw Legend The Choctaw People say that when the People first came up out of the ground, People were...

Once in the long ago, Skel'aw' (beaver) had a large family of young men and not far from the beaver...

An Inca Legend The word Raymi is equivalent to white mans word Easter. Among the four festivals which the Kings...

A Winnebago (Hotcâk) Legend When they told stories, people always said of what tribe they were. That they said. They...

A Hopi Legend Away down the sípapu in the under-world the people lived in the same manner as they do...

An Algonquin Legend Now, truly, one would think that after all that had befallen Master Mahtigwess, the Rabbit, that he...

A Zuni Legend Once, long, long ago, at Háwikuh, there lived a maiden most beautiful. In her earlier years her...

A Seneca Legend Once, when the Senecas were at war with the Cherokees, they became very hungry. They spotted a...

A Cherokee Legend The buzzard used to have a fine topknot, of which he was so proud that he refused...

A Blackfoot Legend One day, late in the fall, Napi was out walking, when he came upon a number of...

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Once upon a time, when the Field-Mouse was out gathering wild beans for the winter, his neighbor, the Buffalo, came...