An old shaman was telling a story to 3 young children.
Ages ago, some human beings had big troubles because the sky was too low.
Birds could not fly and men were bended.
One day, small children decided to change things and attempted to raise the sky with stocks.

Teaching Ideas

This animation can be used when looking at Native Americans in history work to show their mythical beliefs. Although the language spoken in the film is French.

• Children need to read the subtitles to understand what is going on.
• Pause the text and discuss plot, language etc
• Write own myth in the similar
• Link with Tinga Tinga tales and How the Whale became etc
• Play the film without subtitles (see link ) and discuss with the children, text type, predictions etc