An edition of Hold Up the Sky
(2003)
Hold up the sky
and other Indian tales from Texas and the Southern Plains
1st ed.
by Jane Louise Curry
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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.
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Hold Up the Sky: And Other Native American Tales from Texas and the Southern Plains
April 1, 2003, Margaret K. McElderry
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Hold up the sky: and other Indian tales from Texas and the Southern Plains
2003, Margaret K. McElderry Books
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Table of Contents
About the tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains
Beginning of the world / Tejas (Hasinai)
Coyote makes the sun / Kiowa-Apache
Why bear waddles when he walks / Comanche
Quarrel between wind and thunder / Lipan Apache
Thunderbird woman, skiwis and little big-belly boy / Waco
Monsters and the flood / Wichita
Coyote and the seven brothers / Caddo
Slaying the monsters / Kadohadacho
Hold up the sky / Lipan Apache
Coyote and mouse
Tonkawa
Coyote and the smallest snake / Tawakoni
Coyote flies with the geese / Lipan Apache
Coyote frees the buffalo / Kitsai
Great meatball / Comanche
Fight between the animals and insects / Lipan Apache
How rabbit stole mountain lion's teeth / Addo
Fox and possum / Kitkehahki, South Band Pawnee
Sendeh sings to the prairie dogs / Kiowa
Deserted children / Comanche
Mountain lion and the four sisters / Osage
How poor boy won his wife / Kiowa-Apache
Ghost woman / Kiowa-Apache
Boy who killed the hill / Osage
White fox / Kiowa
Tonkawa and the bear / Tonkawa
Young boy chief and his sister / Wichita
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"Ayo-Caddi-Aymay, as the Tejas people called God, was the one and only God, and whatever he did turned out for the best."
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