How the Oceans Came to Be

How the Oceans Came to BeIn this delightful Lumbee story, clever Rabbit outsmarts a selfish Great Snapping Turtle. When Rabbit discovers many animals could not find water, he sets out to solve the mystery. What he finds is the Great Snapping Turtle blocking the water of the Mother Spring. When the stubborn turtle refuses to move, Rabbit figures out a way to let the water flow. As the water flowed to all creatures, it also created the oceans of Turtle Island.

then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew

Riggs (1812-83) was the author or coauthor of numerous publications

In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition

Allen rebuts colonial discourses and examines the multiple ways these remarkable structures continue to hold ancient knowledge and make new meaning--in the present and for the future

The narrator of this beautiful

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the government had arranged for her adoption by strangers without her parents' permission

Erdrich is a fearless and inventive writer

internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of Welcome Song for Baby and We Sang You Home

so it is the hope of the Taos Pueblo’s Tiwa Language Program that other American Indian nations will find the books useful to teach their languages to their children

and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing

Ojibwe is spoken in many local varieties in the Upper Midwest and across Central and Eastern Canada