In these entertaining twenty-one stories from a variety of California Indian tribes, you'll meet trickster Coyote, Grizzly Bear, Dog, and Weasel. You'll find out how -- according to Indian legend -- the world began, the mountains were formed, and Sun came to light the day.

Read (and laugh) about a time when all was magic and wonder, when Man was at home in the natural world, back in the Beforetime. [close]