Thomas King

After a little girl, who is dressed like a reindeer, crashes Coyote's solstice party, she brings them to a mall where Coyote has fun shopping--until he realizes he needs to pay for everything.

"The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history--in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in...

Explores how stories shape who we are, how we understand and interact with other people, and how Native American culture ties into storytelling, from creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native American literature.

Insulted because Coyote will not sing to her, Moon leaves the sky and returns only to get away from Coyote's singing.