Indigenous American Folktales — 74 Stories

• The First Areíto Drum
• The First Hammock
• The Spirits Beneath the Ball Court
• Juracán, Lord of the Storm
• Guahayona and the Broken Covenant
• Atabey, Mother of Waters
• Yúcahu, Giver of Crops
• The First Cassava Woman
• The lodge pole that would not stand
• The path that widened for helpers
• The fire keeper without a face
• The winter store that emptied at pride
• The council bench no one could sit on alone
• The canoe that drifted from quarrels
• The River Crossing That Demanded Silence
• The Trail That Closed After Sunset
• The Wind That Spoke Only Once
• The Hill That Shifted at Night
• The Garden That Withheld Its Seeds
• The River That Closed Its Mouth
• The Child Who Learned to Hear Leaves
• The Clay Path That Remembered Footsteps
• The Rain That Refused One Village
• The Child Who Learned to Listen to Stone
• The Tree That Counted Years
• The Clay Woman Who Learned to Breathe
• The River That Remembered Blood
• The Path That Returned the Traveler
• The Star That Fell into the Cacao Bowl
• The Woman Who Held the Rain Jar
• The Stone That Would Not Be Carried
• The Twin Brothers Who Shared One Shadow
• The Canoe That Spoke of Past Journeys
• The Crab That Spoke to the Moon
• The Spirit of the Coconut Grove
• The Man Who Became a Hummingbird
• The Snake Who Guarded the Cassava
• The sea that laughed at pride
• The Spider That Wove the Sun
• The Child Who Learned to Walk Backward
• The Mask That Could Not Be Worn Twice
• The River Bend That Returned Lost Time
• The Fire Keeper Who Refused a Name
• The Bone Needle That Sewed Silence
• The Hill That Turned Away the Proud
• The Woman Who Carried Winter in Her Bundle
• The Sleeping Canoe Beneath the Rapids
• The Spirit of the Sacred Mountain
• The Fire Brought by the Snake
• The Boy Who Spoke to Jaguars
• The Macaw’s Rainbow Feathers
• The Anaconda Spirit and the First River
• The Hummingbird and the Sun
• The Hero Twins and the Lords of Death
• The Corn Mother’s Gift
• The Rabbit in the Moon
• The Fisherman and the Sea Goddess
• The Bat Who Brought Night
• The Spirit of the Ceiba Tree
• The Serpent of the Hidden River
• The Little Thunder Egg in the Prairie Sky
• The Salmon Road Between Two Worlds
• The Two-Headed Bear of the Great Glacier
• The Hummingbird and the Moon
• The Mountain Who Wept Stone
• Louquo: The First Man from the Sky
• The Spirit of Guabancex: The Lady of Storms
• Deminan Caracaracol: The Turtle Man
• Raven: The Trickster Creator of Light
• N’ha-a-itk: The Spirit of Okanagan Lake
• The Origin of the Wind: The Breath of the Great Spirit
• The Bear Mother: The Child of Two Worlds
• The Eagle and the Turtle’s Promise
• The Moon’s Missing Child