Peoples
The stories belong to the peoples who told them. Here they are grouped by people, with a few words about each. Films made together with collaborators from the Lakota, Inuit, Tohono O'odham, Diné, Sámi, Finnish and Estonian peoples.
BlackfootNorthern Plains: Montana and Alberta2 stories: The Theft from the Sun, Why the Birch Tree Wears Slashes
CherokeeSouthern Appalachians; today Oklahoma and North Carolina5 stories: The Star Feathers, How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit, The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird, Why the Deer's Teeth Are Blunt, How the Deer Got His Horns
DakotaMinnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska; Manitoba and Saskatchewan1 story: Dance in a Buffalo Skull
EstonianEstonia, on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea3 stories: The Generous Woodcutter, Dawn and Dusk, The Spirits of the Northern Lights
InuitUngava (Nunavik), northern Quebec1 story: The Fox Woman
Lillooet (St'át'imc)Fraser and Lillooet rivers, British Columbia1 story: The Man in the Moon
OnondagaCentral New York and Ontario1 story: Origin of the Pleiades
PassamaquoddyMaine and New Brunswick2 stories: How Glooskap Found the Summer, Glooskap and the Wind Bird
PenobscotPenobscot River, Maine1 story: How the Lord of Men and Beasts Strove
Pima (Akimel O'odham)Gila and Salt River valleys, Arizona2 stories: How the Bluebird Got Its Color, Origin of the Saguaro
SámiSápmi: northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula1 story: The Fox and the Bear
SaulteauxManitoba, northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan1 story: Why Wild Roses Have Thorns
SenecaWestern New York; also Oklahoma and Ontario2 stories: The Woman and Dog on the Moon, The Great Bear and the Six Hunters
Sioux (Lakota and Dakota)Northern Plains: the Dakotas2 stories: The Rabbit and the Bear with the Flint Body, The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
TlingitSoutheast Alaska, the Yukon and northern British Columbia1 story: Beaver and Porcupine
Wyandot (Wendat)Great Lakes; today Oklahoma, Quebec, Kansas and Michigan1 story: How the Wyandots Obtained the Tobacco Plant
ZuniZuni Pueblo, western New Mexico2 stories: How the Rattlesnakes Came to Be What They Are, The Coyote and the Beetle