The mythic age comes to an end with the transformation of the landscape, the transmorphizing of the First People into the food anials of the modern world. Yet, after all these changes the Frog dwells in the backwaters, sitting on a log or lily pad and catching herfod with her long gongue without moving her body. She thus demonstrates her supernatural association ith the non-moving North Star, which teaches the virtues of humility and patience. These unobstrusive amphibians have slimy skins, no tails, long awkward legs which flailout during their seeemingly inefficient swimming. They have protruding eyes and are predominantly aquatic.
Frogs are active at night, when humans are asleep.
This book features Native American folk tales about frogs. In the opening narrative the awkward Frog triumphed in a race against the fastest runner in the world, the Antelope. The Kootenai Indian narrator explains in Frog how the Frog leader used his brain, instead of his legs to win the race.