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This beautifully illustrated Plains Indian Creation story celebrates a new Earth after the flood and narrates the making of the buffaloes, mountains, plants, colorful horses and Thunderbirds among others. Weaving together the legends of the Plains Indian tribes, including the stories of the Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Arapaho, and the Crow, this revised edition contains 8 pages of additional illustrations and stories, as well as a new foreword. It also includes an extensive reference list and detailed introductory note.
Awards
- Gold Midwest Book Award for “Child/Young Adult Fiction”
About the Author(s)
Paul Goble
Paul Goble was an award-winning author and illustrator of over 30 children's books. Goble's life-long fascination with Native Americans of the Plains began during his childhood when he became intrigued with their spirituality and culture. His illustrations accurately depict Native American clothing, customs and surroundings in brilliant color and detail. Goble researched ancient stories and retells them for his young audience in a manner sympathetic to Native American ways. Mr. Goble has authored or contributed to the following World Wisdom titles: UL REMOVED
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Joe Medicine Crow
Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (1913-2016) was the Crow Tribal Historian and the oldest living man of the Crow tribe. In 1939, he was the first member of the Crow tribe to obtain a master’s degree. Dr. Medicine Crow was a guest speaker at Little Bighorn College, the Custer Battlefield Museum, and several other colleges throughout the nation. Joe Medicine Crow received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on August 12, 2009. He lived on the Crow Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana, until his death on April 3, 2016.
His books include, A Handbook of Crow Indian Laws and Treaties, and From the Heart of the Crow Country.
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Reviews
- What a beautiful book! The illustrations would tell volumes all by themselves, but paired with the text they offer an extremely approachable entry into Plains Indian creation stories and mythology. An a non-Native American reader, I’ll have to say that this is the book of Native American mythology that has most made a connection for me and has somehow allowed me to understand and ‘live’ in the mythology more than any other book.
Midwest Book Award Judging Panel
- The Earth Made New: Plains Indian Stories of Creation is the recent offering of Caldecott Medal-winning author/artist Paul Goble, creator of The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Buffalo Woman, and Mystic Horse. Illustrated throughout with beautiful, crisp, clean colored paintings, The Earth Made New tells many of the mysterious details of creation stories of the Plains Indians of North America. The text is spare but haunting, with many starred footnotes added to the pages to enrich the stories with further details or variations, each of which could be imagined to begin another whole story cycle of its own. Thus we have the feeling or effect of the presence of a true teller of the sacred tales when we hold and read The Earth Made New. Joe Medicine Crow gives high praise in his forward, saying, ‘Paul Goble has done a good job of presenting the Plains Indian story of creation.’ The Earth Made New will appeal to children (and their parents) age 6 and up.
Midwest Book Review
