The precious gift : a Navaho creation myth /
by Ellen Jackson ; illustrated by Woodleigh Marx Hubbard.
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996.
- [33] p. : col. ill ; 29 cm.
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A retelling of part of a Navajo creation and evolution myth in which of all the animals the lowly snail alone is responsible for bringing pure water to the new land.
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