FOR GRADES 7 - 12
LENGTH: 50-minutes with 10-minute question period.

Festival and general audience versions are also available in one-hour and 90-minute presentations (general auidence versions can combine Coyote's World with The Banyan Tree to become Banyan and Buffalo or combined with Legends, Stories from the Buffalo Hunters to collectively be titled Legends. Both combinations require a 15-minute intermission.

SPECIAL CURRICULUM APPLICATIONS: Native folklore, story-telling, pantomime, role-playing, physical awareness, multi-culturalism, social studies, history, anthropology

COYOTE’S WORLD: Imagine a world before our’s, a world rich in folklore, creatures who could transform themselves, simple ideas about living close to the earth [from the perspective of a coyote or a buffalo or a soaring eagle], then you would have an idea what this show is like!

Watch Coyote accidentally make Winter happen! Enjoy the hilarity of Coyote and his friend, Iktome the Spider, being chased by a vengeful rock! Find out where mosquitoes come from (according to Northwest Coast Indians)!

Find out what happens to evil a medicine man who in his arrogance tries to kill Rabbit Boy. Discover where the buffalo go. Coyote's World is a poetic and mystical adventure into the heart and soul of North American Indian legends that will resonate in the minds and feelings of its audiences.

“Strong feelings of sadness and happiness are experienced in stories such as… THE BUFFALO GO and my personal favourite MAN-MAKER AND COYOTE.”
Sunday International, Calgary, Alberta