I want to tell you a story as it was told to me. - Lakota His name is Old Pete Chasing Horse, the storyteller of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Nearing a century old, it's his duty to share the legends and the wisdom of his people — timeless moral stories that are a gift of life from the heart of the Dreamkeeper … As they were told to him, they are told to you … Legend of Coyote and Iktome Coyote is a trickster. His companion is Iktome, a spider person. When hunger overtakes them, Coyote gives Grandfather Stone his knife in return for helping him and Iktome find sustenance. But once he finds the food, Coyote realizes he will need his knife back to eat it. Betraying the Stone he bargained with, Coyote steals back the knife. While pursued Iktome climbs a tree to safety. Coyote finds his fate underneath a fallen Grandfather Stone. Legend of Coyote and Iktome, and Iktome's Wife Surviving his last trick, Coyote is invited to dinner by Iktome. Iktome instructs his wife on how to cook two livers for the both of them. For Coyote, a special duck. While Iktome is out hunting, his wife eats both livers and fears her husband's wrath. When Coyote seduces her, she gets her revenge by telling Iktome that it was he who ate the livers. On the run for his safety, the once-cunning trickster is transformed into a real coyote. Legend of Dirty Belly and The Dun Pony Dirty Belly and Old Woman are desperately poor. As scavengers, they are forced to live on the outskirts of the Pawnee camp. When Dirty Belly finds a dun pony he fearlessly rides it into battle against the approaching Oglala. The pony is killed but its spirit tells Dirty Belly the secret of amassing twenty beautiful white mares in return for his bravery. Honorable and heroic, he marries the beautiful daughter of Pawnee Chief, Iron Spoon. Legend of Quillwork Girl and her Seven Star Brothers Quillwork Girl dreams of working for the legendary Seven Brothers and becoming their Cheyenne sister in spirit. She finds them but her happiness is short-lived. Buffalo Calf arrives to marry her into the buffalo nation. When Quillwork Girl and her brothers climb a cottonwood tree for escape, they discover that with each arrow fired, the tree grows until they reach the safety of the clouds. With last arrow fired into the sun Quillwork Girl and her Seven Brothers are turned into stars that light the night sky forever. Legend of Raven Raven has a warning for the people of the Northwest. A great sickness has spread over the land because of man's greed. The Elder has a remedy for the plague: a chief's daughter must throw herself from the cliffs to the rocks below. The village Chief rules against this, but in the dead of night his own daughter leaps to her death to cure her people. In memory of her sacrifice a glorious waterfall flows from the cliffs high above the village. Legend of Ekuskini and The Ghost Hunter Ekuskini is on a game hunt with Whirlwind Dreamer and two Blackfoot hunters. He encourages them to follow him on the trail of his dead father, a great Blackfoot hunter. The two hunters refuse and turn back, but the curious Whirlwind Dreamer agrees. When Ekuskini sees the ghost hunter and rides toward him the ghost disappears leaving in its place a small stone. Ekuskini promises to keep the stone close to his heart, and in return for his beliefs, his buffalo hunting reaps great rewards http://abc.go.com/movies/Dreamkeeper/legends.html