A Tale Told By the Fire Shaun Jex

This week we travel to Mesoamerica to tell the creation story as taught by the Maya. 

Text from the story comes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

To read the story and view the other resources available, visit https://maya.nmai.si.edu/

This week's episode is a Lipan Apache tale about Coyote called The Trouble With Rose Hips

This week we read a story from the Caddo people of North Eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The Story, The Old Woman Who Kept All the Pecans, tells the story of how pecan trees became available to all. 

This week our story takes us back to South East Alaska for another Tlingit legend. We tell the story of The Land-Otter Son. 

This week we read "Snowflake" from Andrew Lang's Pink Fairy book.

This week's episode takes us to Thailand for the story The Elephant and the Bees. The story is retold from the book Thai Tales: Folktales of Thailand by Supaporn Vathanaprida, edited by Margaret Read MacDonald (Libraries Unlimited, 1994).