Legends of the Elders, Volume 1 encompasses three varieties of Native North American legends: entertainment legends, instructional legends, and moral legends. Legends become so with the telling and retelling of them through many generations. Such stories entertain, enlighten, and entrance with their simplicity and clarity while giving listeners and readers pause to think. Always entertaining and often insightful, Legends of the Elders is an intriguing work which serves as preservation of North American Indian cultures.