The deetkatoo : Native American stories about little people /
Twenty-two stories retold from fourteen Native-American groups from Alaska to mid-South America. Little people predate the Europeans in the Western Hemisphere. They live in forests, in water, underground, and on mountains.
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New York :
William Morrow and Co.,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Weaker and weaker (Inuit)
- Three wishes (Mohawk)
- Proud-woman and all-kinds-of-trees (Seneca)
- Girl who married the little man (Inuit)
- Little ones and their mouse helpers (Cherokee)
- All are my friends (Yurok)
- Little house in the deep water (Cherokee)
- Boy who married the little woman (Maliseet)
- Two bad friends (Inuit)
- Little people who build the temples (Maya)
- How the dead came back (Cherokee)
- Little man who married the whirlwind (Seneca)
- Rainmakers' apprentice (Nahua)
- Thunder's two sisters (Cherokee)
- Smallest bow (Seneca)
- Little woman who taught pottery (Toba)
- Hunter who lost his luck (Seneca/Cayuga)
- Star husbands (Passamaquoddy)
- Twelve little women (Lenape)
- Talking tree (Yaqui)
- Deetkatoo (Tillamook)
- Guide to tribes and cultures
- Guide to the lore of little people.