How Two-Feather Was Saved from Loneliness

Andrew Vaisius is a Winnipeg daycare director.

This book recounts the legend of how corn came to the Abenaki. As in
many legends, the modus operandi is desire. Two Feather, one of only a
few people on earth, longs for company. A vision of “a woman, lovely
as spring, with long soft hair” appears to him. He reaches out, but
she remains beyond his grasp. He follows her over hill and dale. At last
she instructs him in the skills of firemaking and agriculture. He burns
off a field and depletes the woman-corn by dragging her through the
cleared field. The artwork illustrates the story with care, and, if I
may say so, with love. Taylor’s first book will not be her last. It is
an exquisite and welcome addition to retold Native legends.