"I asked children- Navajo, Hopi, Papago [Tohono O'odham], Pima, Apache, Quechan, Cocopah- to choose a story told to them by someone in their own tribe. It should be their favorite story, I said, maybe the best story in the world.

That story would be their gift to other tribes, to other children. It would be sharing some of the oldest magic of the Indian world.

Here in Arizona, Indians don't tell their stories in summer. The old people say snakes don't like to hear them and sometimes it makes them angry and they come and bite the storyteller. So stories are saved for winter when the snakes are sleeping.

In gathering these stories, I saved them for winter, too. I did not ask anyone to tell them in summer and I hope whoever reads them now will put the book away during the hot part of the year when snakes are listening." back cover

Soft cover, 83 pages

And It Is Still That Way' is a collection of legends told by Arizona Native American children. This softcover book with 83 pages measures 8 inches by 6 inches.