This is what I am.

I see you, but you cannot see me.
Sometimes you look at me and see yourself.
Tam a mirror.

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The sand was crushed in a machine.
That made our edges smooth.


The story tells how a rock becomes glass.


HENRY REAL BIRD

Henry Real Bird is a Crow Indian who was raised in the
traditional Crow way on the Crow Indian reservation in
Montana. He entered first grade speaking only the Crow
Indian language and has an intimate knowledge of prob-
lems Indian children encounter in the public school system.
He received his B.S. in Elementary Education from Mon-
tana State University and has taught reading in all the
elementary grades. He served as Curriculum Coordinator
for Project Head Start, Language Arts Supervisor at St.
Xavier Indian Mission and Summer Program Planner for
4-H and Youth Programs on the Crow Indian reservation. As
the Teacher Orientation Specialist for the Pacific Northwest
Indian Program, he was responsible for developing a
teacher’s manual and accompanying teaching inservice
program in addition to writing and illustrating books de-
signed for Indian children. He has served on the Montana
Advisory Committee on Children and Youth and the Crow
Central Education Commission, and was a delegate to the
1971 White TTouse Conference on Youth, He also is a saddle
brone rider and member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association.



ee THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
‘¥% Stories and Legends of the Northwest


Some of us went to where they make windshields for cars.
The people heated the sheets again
to make safety glass for cars.

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One day we heard a loud noise.
It was a truck and a tractor.

The tractor had a big shovel.


sprble st

ee

The river was strong.

It pushed me over and over.
Parts of me were chipped away.
Then I was sand.


Long ago, I was a rock in the mountains.
One day I rolled into the river.
Then I was far from the mountains.


Iam part of glass now.

But you can hardly see me.
Glass makes all of these things.
Can you think of more?

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Sometimes snow covered us.
Then we were cold.
When the snow melted, we saw the sun.


Aya asd sitet ha i"
4

The Indian Reading Series
Level III Book 16


The truck stopped.
The truck dumped us out into a big pile of sand.


Then we were in the truck.
The truck went fast.
Some of my friends were blown away.


There were many of us there.
We looked alike.
We were part of sand.


Booklets available in the Level III sequence are listed below. Numbers refer to the planned sequence of use
in the Teacher’s Manual. Materials developed by these tribes and others in the Northwest are included in

the Levels I and II sequences.

1 Story of the Seasons
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

2 The Beginning of the Earth
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
3 The Blacktail Dance
Blackfeet Tribe

4 How Marten Got His Spots
Kootenai Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

5 Lost in the Fog
Jamestown-Clallam Tribe

6 How to Be a Friend
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
7 How the Morning and Evening Stars
Came to Be
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation
8 Raccoon’s Black Eyes and Ringed Tail
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

9 Coyote and Old Lady
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

10 Coyote and Trout
Kootenai Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

11 How the Milky Way Got into the Sky
The Confederated Tribes of the
‘Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

12 Inkdomi and the Buffalo
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

13 Medicine Horse
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

14 The Good Hunter and Fisherman
Jamestown-Clallam Tribe

15 The Wild Buffalo Ride
Blackfeet Tribe

161 Ama Rock
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

17 The Man Who Loved Shell Money
Skokomish Tribe

18 Old Man Napi
Blackfeet Tribe

19 The Turtle Who Went to War
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

20 Coyote and the Mean Mountain Sheep
Salish Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

For order information and prices of the above booklets and the Teacher’s Manual, contact the publisher:

Educational Systems, Inc.
2360 Southwest 170th Street
Beaverton, Oregon 97005

(503) 649-7516


Developed by the Pacific Northwest Indian Reading and Language Development Progra
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 710 Southwest Second Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204

Copyright °1978 by the Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural Commission
All rights reserved.

The work upon which this publication is based was performed pursuant to Contract
No. 400-76-0048, with the Educational Equity Group/ Multicultural Bilingual Division
of the National Institute of Education. It does not, however, necessarily reflect the
views of that agency.

‘This publication is not printed at the expense of the Federal Government,

Published by Educational Systems, Inc., 2360 Southwest 170th Street, Beaverton, Oregon 97005

Printed and bound in the United States of America


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H hi dy

Then we were put into a fire.


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The people put blankets between the sheets.
This was to keep the sheets from breaking.
Then they loaded some of us into trucks.

It was my turn to go.


THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
Stories and Legends of the Northwest

IT Am a Rock

Level III Book 16

A Crow Story
Written and illustrated by Henry Real Bird

Joseph Coburn, Director
Pacific Northwest Indian Program
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory



THE INDIAN READING SERIES: Stories and Legends of the
Northwest is a collection of authentic material cooperatively devel-
oped by Indian people from twelve reservations. Development ac-
tivities are guided by a Policy Board which represents the Indian
community of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Indian
Reading and Language Development Program Policy Board members
are:

* Warren Clements — Warm Springs
Chairman

* Morrie Jimenez — Klamath

« Joan Kennerly — Blackfeet

Walter Moffett — Nez Perce

« Emmett Oliver — Quinault

* Bob Parsley — Chippewa

* Lloyd Smith — Warm Springs

* Max Snow

¢ Jeanne Thomas — Yakima


A man came with a wheelbarrow and a shovel.
He put some sand into his wheelbarrow.


The fire was so hot we melted together into one piece.
Some of us were sheets.
Some of us were sticks.

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