The students are reading the Native American legends written by Paul Goble. His stories and illustrations of the Plains Indians culture is authentic. The students read the book, Lost Children. This legend explains the origin of the Pleiades stars, or as the Blackfoot call them the Lost Children.
Passage:
You can see the Lost Children in the Above World. We call them the Pleiades because they are close together, just as they always were on Earth. How beautiful the children look! And yet, how very far way they are now. If only people had remembered that all the little children are gifts from God...
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