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When bear stole the chinook : a Siksika tale
Title:
When bear stole the chinook : a Siksika tale
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Because the long, hard winter caused scarcity of firewood and food, a poor Indian boy and his animal friends journey to the lodge of the Great Bear to release the chinook.
Year Published:
1997
Physical Description:
[32] pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Note:
"Best of the Best" book.

When Bear Stole the Chinook was adapted from The Bear Who Stole the Chinook: Tales from the Blackfoot. Siksika means "Black-footed People.
Reading Grade level:
3.9.
Grade Interest level:
K-3.
Program Information:
Histories & Stories of Ways of Life in Canada; Stories, Histories & People of AB Gr. 4+
ISBN:
9780374305895

9780374109479
Publisher:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

©1997