Author: Olaf Baker
Genre: Traditional or Folk Literature
This book is about a young boy, Little Wolf, in an Indian tribe. One of the older Indian’s in the tribe talks about where the buffaloes begin. It is a legend that the buffalo herd rise from a lake far away from where the tribe has settled. The story talks about how they sound and look as they come from the water. The boy sets out one day to find this lake and see the buffalo begin. He doesn’t realize that the tribe’s arch enemy is headed to their village to kill them. He finds the lake and the buffalo rise from the water and the herd and Little Wolf who feels he is being led by spirits go as fast as they can back to his village. They stop the other tribe from killing his people by the buffalo trampling them. The book ends with this being added to the legend as how Little Wolf saved his tribe.
I would read this book to the class. Then I would have the students imagine they were a young child in an Indian village. I would have them write how they would live everyday describing food and how it was prepared, clothing and how it was made and transportation. Would they go to school? The students would then draw a picture to represent their story to share with the class. This could be done in conjunction with social studies lessons on the history of North Carolina or the United States.
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