Big Turtle

By David McLimans

Subjects: Turtles, Wyandot Indians, Toads, Indians of North America, Folklore

Description: In the time when all people live in the sky and all animals in the water, Sky Girl falls through a hole, is rescued by swans and taken to wise Big Turtle who, with the help of noble Toad, called Mashutaha, creates the land on which we live. Includes notes about the Huron people from whom the tale comes.