How the Stars Fell into the Sky by Jerrie Oughton

It ended with people living and not knowing about Coyote jumbling the stars and not knowing the reason for the confusion that would always be with them. And the warrior would warm himself by them when he was in unknown territory.Ĭoyote was impatient and it done so he picked up her blanket and threw the rest into the sky, undoing her patterns.

She patiently explained that the people will see them before they go in their hogans at night.

She asked what was as important as writing laws. She put the stars in the sky in certain patterns everyone could read.Ĭoyote watched her and asked to help, but there were so many more stars left that he complained at it was slow work. He saw the stars and told her to use her jewels and write them in the sky. He then told her to write them in the water but she said they would disappear. He told her to write them in the sand but she said the wind would blow them away. I could tell by looking at the cover that I wasn't crazy about the illustrations.įirst Woman told First Man that people needed to know the laws and they had to write them for everyone to see. |a Initial Bemis load m2btab.test019 in 2019.This is a retelling of a Navajo legend told by the medicine man Hosteen Klah at the turn of the 20th century. |a Indians of North America |z Southwest, New |x Folklore |0 |v Juvenile literature. |a Navajo Indians |v Folklore |0 |v Juvenile literature. |a A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky. |a 28 pages : |b color illustrations |c 26 cm |a Boston : |b Houghton Mifflin, |c 1992. |a How the stars fell into the sky : |b a Navajo legend / |c Jerrie Oughton illustrated by Lisa Desimini.

How the Stars Fell into the Sky by Jerrie Oughton