Indigenous peoples -- Legends 

"The beginning of all things is the stuff of legends, and the Indians of North America told many stories to explain the world around them. One of the loveliest is the Abenaki legend of how both fire and corn came into the world, and it is retold here in unusually evocative paintings by an Indian woman artist of exceptional talent.

Two-Feather had been wandering all winter long, lonely and hungry. One spring night he goes to sleep to forget his despair, to be awakened by a voice calling his name and a woman so beautiful, he falls in love and begs her to stay with him forever. He woos her in the moonlight, follows her over mountains and through forests and obeys her every command, including the last and most difficult of all, only to find at the end that she has left him. But not to despair, for she has seen to it that he will never be lonely or hungry again.

The love between Two-Feather and the Corn Goddess is in the tradition of the world's great stories of unrequited love: sad, beautiful and precious. And in the tradition of Indian legends it imbues with enchantment everyday things we take for granted."--Back cover. 

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.