This legend is about a brave Warrior Maiden named Huh-ay-ay. Before heading off to the desert, her father tells her to watch for Apache raiders and to protect the corn and the people. She warns her mother when she sees Apache raiders. Her mother protects her sisters while Huh-ay-ay runs off to warn the people. She commands the people to guard the ladders and to make a lot of noise so that the raiders will think that the pueblo has many warriors. Meanwhile, she hurries to warn her father and the boys in the desert. Frightened by the weapons, the raiders flee. People sing and dance in praise of The Warrior maiden each year.
After doing a read-aloud with this book, I would have the students do a quick-write of a time they had to think fast in an urgent or frightening situation.
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