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How Iwariwa the Cayman Learned to Share: A Yanomami Myth

Book Importer — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:41:21 +0000

Iwariwa the cayman refuses to share the fire that he uses to cook his food, until the animals of the Venezuelan rain forest come up with an ingenious scheme to trick him, in a traditional myth from the Yanomami people of South America.

Chaska and the Golden Doll

Yoo Kyung Sung — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000

Chaska wishes that she could learn to read and write, but the schoolhouse in her little village in the Andes Mountains is too small, and only the boys and older girls can attend. So she spends her days with Grandfather, who tells her stories about the proud Incas and their gold. Many years ago, the Incas lived in the same valley as Chaska’s village and made golden objects in honor of the Sun God, Papa Inti. A few still lie buried among the rocks and stones. One day, as Chaska is thinking about these stories, she finds a golden doll–real Inca idol.

Inca & Spaniard: Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru

Yoo Kyung Sung — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000

Describes the world of the Incas and how it was changed forever when the Spanish expedition under Pizarro conquered Peru.

Bringing the Boy Home

Yoo Kyung Sung — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:17:33 +0000

As two Takunami youths approach their thirteenth birthdays, Luka reaches the culmination of his mother’s training for the tribe’s manhood test while Tirio, raised in Miami, Florida, by his adoptive mother, feels called to begin preparations to prove himself during his upcoming visit to the Amazon rain forest where he was born.