Books in the Tales of the People series

Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists and writers.

This text tells the story of Silhumana, a Flower Maiden, a young Hopi native indian girl, who travels to a nearby village to participate in her first Butterfly Dance which is performed to bring rain to the dry lands of the Southwest.