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The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story

From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be. Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the woman's retreat.

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Joseph Bruchac

Lessons Associated with this Resource

FoodMASTER: Fruits
Eating Plants
Freshest Fruits
DNA: Expressions in Agriculture
Bunches of Berries

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