A Legend

Shimmering Star
by Sara (Gentle Rabbit ) and Emily (Eyes Like Sky )

One dark night in the dark woodlands of the southeast, there was a girl named Singing Bird. Her sisters were mean to her and called her Lazy Bird. She got very, very, very mad. She noticed before she went to bed that there were no stars in the sky. There should have been nine billion shimmering, wishing and regular stars. The shaman told her to go to the sky people and give them magic flowers from the meadow to trade for nine billion stars. It took six moons and seven suns through the Smoky Mountains to get to the home of the sky people. She traded the magic flowers for nine billion stars. She threw the stars in the sky. Her people had a potlatch and gave her a new name, and that name was SHIMMERING STAR.

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