Xavier, the narrator, used to have an otter as a pet. He slept at night and was up early in the morning but returned to bed in the afternoon. In winter, his family would cut two holes in the ice and ...

When Xavier, the narrator, was a child, his family had a beaver for a pet. During the day he slept but during the night he worked hard at cutting willow sticks until there was a pile blocking the door. ...

Xavier, the narrator, used to have hawks in his family's care from when they didn't even have feathers yet. They ate a lot of fish, once a day and when they grew bigger they didn't want to leave.  ...

Chahkabesh finds tracks leading up a hill and wonders what animals are making them. When he tells his sister, she warns him that those are the animals that killed their parents and made them orphans, ...

Chahkabesh hears a strange sound and his sister tells him that he heard the giant women collecting wood in the morning. He promises his sister never to go back but the next day he returns to where he ...

After hunting one day, Chahkabesh's sister tells him to get snow from outside but warns him not to look up at the moon. Soon, however, he looks up at the moon and stares at it as hard as he can and ...

When Chahkabesh shoots an arrow at a bird and misses, it lands in the lake. He is too afraid to retrieve it, however, because of the strange creatures creating ripples on the surface. He tells his ...

When Chahkabesh wants to go hunt near the lake where the big fish live, his sister tells him to be careful not to lose his arrow in the lake or he'll be swallowed by the giant fish. Chahkabesh doesn't ...

Chahkabesh finds what appears to be a blazed trail and wishes to set snares to trap whatever caused it but his sister forbids it because that region is where the sun walks when it rises in the morning. ...

One day, as Chahkabesh is looking for sustenance, he sees a trail over a ridge. He wants to know who created the trail and so he lays a snare. He returns home and forgets about it until the next morning ...

Memishoosh the conjuror adopts young orphan boys, raises them to be his sons-in-law, and then routinely kills them off. One of them, however, was also a conjuror and saves himself from Memishoosh's ...

Mistaganash awoke from the dead and returned home to the delight of his mother. He returned to hunting and excelled at it, but someone tried to kill him again over a woman. Thankfully, Mistaganash's ...

Long ago the land we know as Canada was empty. People lived in another land, up yonder. An unseen voice asked a man and a woman, if they would like to go to this another land down below. They agreed ...

Long ago the land we know as Canada was empty. People lived in another land, up yonder. An unseen voice asked a man and a woman, if they would like to go to this another land down below. They agreed ...

In this story, there is an old man who doesn't treat his wife properly and his son, Ayas, disapproves. One day, the father tricks his son into coming with him and leaves him on a faraway island with ...

When a flood covered every land, Weesakechahk builds a raft to save himself and gathers creatures onto it. He decides, however, that he wants to make more land and decides to lower the creatures he ...

Once during winter there was a man whose younger brother got so cold that he froze to death. When the snow began to thaw, the older brother kicked at the snow and dared it to come freeze him and the ...

This story teaches children not to laugh at anyone who is in trouble. There were once two families living together during winter who lived mostly on hunting rabbits. One day, one of the hunters came ...

A windigo is speared through the neck while hunting an Indian. Instead of saving his life, the wise windigo makes sure he dies so that they can eat him. The wise windigo proclaims, however, that ...

Weesakechahk wishes to eat the birds with whom he lives and so throws a dance and bids them all to sway with their eyes closed. The loon, however, is suspicious and opens his eyes to see Weesakechahk ...