Hold up the sky
Subtitle: and other Indian tales from Texas and the Southern Plains
By: Jane Louise Curry ; illustrated by James Watts.
Contributors: Watts, James, 1955- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780689852879
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Texas -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Folklore; Tales -- Texas; Tales -- Great Plains
Genres: Folklore.
Description: Retells twenty-six tales from Native Americans whose traditional lands were in Texas and the Southern Plains, and provides a brief introduction to the history of each tribe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: About the tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains; title: Beginning of the world / Tejas (Hasinai); title: Coyote makes the sun / Kiowa-Apache; title: Why bear waddles when he walks / Comanche; title: Quarrel between wind and thunder / Lipan Apache; title: Thunderbird woman, skiwis and little big-belly boy / Waco; title: Monsters and the flood / Wichita; title: Coyote and the seven brothers / Caddo; title: Slaying the monsters / Kadohadacho; title: Hold up the sky / Lipan Apache; title: Coyote and mouse; title: Tonkawa; title: Coyote and the smallest snake / Tawakoni; title: Coyote flies with the geese / Lipan Apache; title: Coyote frees the buffalo / Kitsai; title: Great meatball / Comanche; title: Fight between the animals and insects / Lipan Apache; title: How rabbit stole mountain lion's teeth / Addo; title: Fox and possum / Kitkehahki, South Band Pawnee; title: Sendeh sings to the prairie dogs / Kiowa; title: Deserted children / Comanche; title: Mountain lion and the four sisters / Osage; title: How poor boy won his wife / Kiowa-Apache; title: Ghost woman / Kiowa-Apache; title: Boy who killed the hill / Osage; title: White fox / Kiowa; title: Tonkawa  and the bear / Tonkawa; title: Young boy chief and his sister / Wichita; title: About the storytellers; title: About the stories; title: About the author.