Orem Library

A collection of tales about the Big Dipper from various North American Indian cultures

"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was...

When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.

Retells folktales of the Onondaga, Tuscarora, Penobscot, Seneca, Oneida, Mahican, and Anishinabe Indians

A collection of Native American tales and myths focusing on the relationship between man and nature.