Merchandise

Item No	FORMAT	Title	Description	Amount
01	CD	FIRESIDE TALES	Fireside Tales, a collection of seven stories by award-winning storyteller Dovie Thomason , features six Iroquois social songs by, Micky Sickles.  It is a collection of stories for people of all nations and races.  Traditionally, these stories would be told by an older relative, in the cold season, to teach the history, memories, culture, and values of the People to the next generation, while simultaneously reminding the older generation of the proper way to live in harmony with the Earth and all who share it.
02	CD	LESSONS FROM THE ANIMAL PEOPLE	Winner of an ALA Notable Children's Recording and an Editor's Choice Award. Our second tape with storyteller Dovie Thomason and our first with the a cappella group ULALI, this is a collection of nine stories drawn from different Native American tribes including the Lakota, Catawba, Algonquin and Penobscot. Together these four Native women present the vibrant Native American culture as it thrives today. The stories on this tape are the ones children request repeatedly at Dovie's performances. Dovie writes of the collection: "My Grandma Dovie told me stories, not only to teach me about Indian culture and history but because I needed them. Through the mistakes, bad choices and often unruly antics of the animal people, we are shown human weaknesses and are gently and humorously reminded to look at our own." The stories include "The Making of the Animals" from the Algonquin/Iroquois peoples; "Turtle Learns to Fly" and "Mouse & the Moon" from the Lakota/Dakota peoples; "The Bear Child" from the Penobscot/Passamaquoddy and Iroquois peoples; "Two Chipmunks" from the Catawba people; and more.
03	cd	WOPILA: A GIVEAWAY	This collection of traditional Lakota stories is dedicated to children of all nations and races. The stories are a giveaway, a way of returning the gift of the stories preserved by Lakota elders and grandparents to pass on the traditions and perspectives of their people. These stories, usually told on winter evenings, are intended to teach proper behavior or a moral lesson, but without the narrow moralizing of many familiar fables. Good and evil are neither obvious nor polarized, and the multidimensional characters must face difficult choices, similar to ones that children and adults encounter in the present day. Storyteller Dovie Thomason has carefully selected seven timeless Lakota stories to teach and entertain youngsters, and their parents, too.
04	BOOK	THE ANIMAL WISHES	n this traditional story about the long ago, Maker decides to allow the animals-to-be a say in their own features—but only if their wishes are good ones. This is how the Little One and the Noisy One came to be who they are today.