National Network for Equitable Library Service

If you have ever seen the Great White North, you may have been lucky enough to come across the magnificent light show in the sky that are the aurora borealis—the Northern Lights. But have you ever wondered how they came to be? Raven’s Great Light Show relates the wonderful story of how Raven, the trickster figure common to the Oral Tradition of many Indigenous Peoples in Canada, once used his legendary wiles to paint the empty night sky with the billions of stars that vigilantly watch over us.