How the Oceans Came to Be : A Traditional Lumbee Story Mi'kmaw a fish out of water

a fish out of water

Saami Council

Constant changes in government policy meant that

and isolation from her language and her culture

Water is the first medicine

How the Oceans Came to Be : A Traditional Lumbee Story Mi'kmaw a fish out of waterWritten by Arvis Boughman, an enrolled member of the Lumbee of North Carolina and illustrated by Alfreda Beartrack Algeo, a storyteller, poet, artist and member of the Lower Brule Lakota Nations, Kul Wicasa Oyate, in Lower Brule, South Dakota where she grew up. In this delightful Lumbee story, clever Rabbit outsmarts a selfish Great Snapping Turtle. When Rabbit discovers many animals could not find water, he sets out to solve the mystery. What he