Indian tales for little folks
By: by W.S. Phillips (El Comancho) illustrated with eleven full page colored plates, reproduced from water color paintings by the author and further embellished with several hundred little Indian drawings, with explanatory key list so little folks can understand them
Series: Indigenous Peoples: North America; Indigenous Peoples: North America
Publisher: Platt & Munk Company, Inc.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1914
Subjects: Indians of North America; Folklore; Children's stories
Notes: Title page printed in red and black.

"Every story in this book is a genuine Indian story, told in English as nearly as possible as the Indian would tell it. The marginal illustrations are copies of actual Indian drawings from many sources. The large pictures are mine"--Introduction.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
Table of contents: title: How the buffalo and the grizzly bear went to war; title: Why the catfish has a flat head; title: How the buzzard got his black coat; title: The quarrel between the beaver and the porcupine; title: How the fire got into the rocks and the trees; title: Why the wood duck has red eyes; title: How Napi made the animals; title: Why the bluebird is blue and the coyote is gray; title: Where the yellowjackets came from; title: The story of the little rabbit and the lynx; title: Explanatory keys to the Indian drawings.