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Utah Agriculture in the Classroom

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The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story

From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be. Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the woman's retreat.

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Joseph Bruchac
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