TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Maria
AU  - Vigil,Felix
TI  - How Raven stole the sun
SN  - 0789201631
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Abbeville Press
KW  - First Nations
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - Legends
KW  - Ravens
KW  - Tlingit
N1  - Includes a glossary of Tlingit words; All Juvenile
N2  - A long time ago, Raven was pure white. This was so long ago that the only light came from campfires, because a greedy chief kept the stars, moon, and sun locked up in elaborately carved boxes. Determined to free them, the shape-shifting Raven transformed himself into the chief's grandson and  tricked him into opening the boxes and releasing the starlight and moonlight. Though tired of being stuck in human form, Raven maintained his disguise until he got the chief to open the box with the sun and flood the world with daylight, at which point he transformed himself back into a raven. When the furious chief locked him in the house, Raven was forced to escape through the small smokehole at the top and that's why ravens are now black as smoke instead of white as snow
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