De totem van Regenboog, Nanabozo het magische konijn, is terug op de
grote prairie! Zoals gewoonlijk is zijn komst een vrolijke
gebeurtenis. Het reuzenkonijngeeft niet alleen wijze raad, maar hij
houdt er ook van om het publiek te vermaken met zijn ongelooflijke
kunsten en de grootste verrassing blijkt een authentiek
grotschilderijuit de tijd van de reuzenbevers te zijn! Job en Derib
kruiden hun verhaal met een heerlijk snufje magie, wat niet wegneemt
dat de dieren waarmee ze ons laten kennismaken, levensecht en
natuurgetrouw zijn weergegeven.
Yakari meets his friend Great Eagle in his dreams. His wish of seeing him "for real" will come true the day that he manages to be like him. So Yakari tries to fly, but in vain. Then he saves his friend Rainbow from an attack by a mother Puma. And finally he saves the life of the mustang Little Thunder, stuck on a mountain ledge. It is with Little Thunder that Yakari discovers his formidable talent: he can talk to the animals. As a reward for his numerous exploits, Great Eagle gives Yakari his most beautiful feather. But nobody in his tribe will believe the little Indian...
After a long rainy spell, large stretches of the prairie are flooded,
much to the displeasure of most of its inhabitants. Yakari visits his
friends to make sure everyone is all right, then falls asleep that
night and dreams of clouds mysteriously coming out of the water. The
young Sioux's dreams are not always completely random, though, and
the next day he rides out in search of signs. What he will find will soon unite all his friends in a desperate rescue mission ...
It's summer on the prairie, a hot, oppressive summer that has everyone's temper flaring. While Yakari's family, eager to find the buffalo they are tracking, has moved some distance from the other Sioux, nature suddenly unleashes its rage, and a tornado tears through the main camp. Tipis torn, supplies scattered, the tribe must now rebuild ... but there are also several people missing, blown away by the twister and perhaps injured or trapped. Yakari sets out to look for them ...
Little Thunder is quite an astounding pony, and he and Yakari truly are the best of friends. So when upon waking up one morning, he discovers that his mount has left the village, the young Sioux boy is devastated. He tries to find his friend, but is forced to give up as the trail grows cold: whatever it is that drives Little Thunder, he's heading due south as fast as he can. What is it that calls out to him?
There's panic among the beavers. A pelican, fiendishly sick with a cold, makes an emergency landing among them. Not only does this undesirable guest keep all the neighbourhood awake with his monstrous sneezes, but he's dying of hunger. Yakari and Little Thunder bring him to the otters, who cram him with fish. The pelican puts on weight again quickly, but his thundering cold persists!
In the middle of winter, while Yakari and his friends play in the
snow, the tribe's hunters kill a terrified wapiti. A welcome catch,
for the stocks of food are running low. But the next day, all the
meat that had been left to dry has disappeared! The hunters set out
after the thief, and soon begin to suspect a bear. Yakari then
decides to visit his furry friends to identify the culprit ...
Tormented Wolf, a warrior from Yakari's tribe, has an obsession: to take his revenge on the wolf who attacked and injured him three winters before. This wolf limps... Yakari has crossed the path of Three Legs. He is afraid, but a dream and the intervention of Great Eagle, his totem, encourage him to join the wolves. He will earn the trust of the pack's leader...
Yakari gets to know the ways of the lord of the plains: the buffalo. After a hunt that brought the tribe much needed supplies, Yakari is visited in his dreams by the buffalo, killed the day of his birth, whose pelt still serves as his blanket. Intrigued, the young Sioux and Little Thunder go see the great herd. From encounter to encounter, and by helping a young mother and her newborn calf against a particularly nasty wolf, Yakari learns to know those majestic animals so important to his own people's survival...
One day when heavy rains force them to play inside, Yakari and
Rainbow are startled by a strange sound. To their amazement, it's
followed by their whole tipi suddenly taking off and flying straight
north, with them inside! After several hours of a not entirely
pleasant journey, they're greeted on landing by Rainbow's spirit
guide Nanabozho, the Great Rabbit, who wants them to meet the
inhabitants of the great north. Among those is a mysterious white
bird ...
When the beavers bring Yakari a battered old canoe, the young Sioux and his friends repair it and go for a little trip-and find more adventure than they bargained for, in the person of a father coyote. Fortunately, their new friend is up to his reputation for cunning: When Buffalo Seed is cornered by an angry puma, it will take all of the coyote's tricks, combined with Yakari's bravery, to get the young hunter out of his predicament.
In the middle of the night, a daring thief from another tribe makes
off with the horses of Yakari's people. Only Little Thunder managed
to escape him by fleeing into the forest. While the warriors hurry
after their precious mounts, Yakari goes in search of his friend ...
who is himself trailing the thief! Once the two groups converge near
a huge camp, Yakari will have to display extraordinary cleverness to help his folk...
Yakari discovers a colony of beavers busy building their dam. There we find Thousand-mouths, the short-tempered building site boss; Wooden-Dam, the smiling old wise man; Wooden-Bed, the sleepyhead; Double-Tooth, the eternally inspired sculptor... and last but not least Little Linden Tree, a lively kid. While they are bathing, this infernal little beaver disappears. Yakari will find him exploring the underground waterways of the river. Linden Tree will, of course, receive his first smacking (Rough-Bark, his father, is so worried!) and Double-Tooth will finally be able to present his masterpiece to the amazed colony.
While trying to save a bear cub from drowning, Yakari falls into the river and hits his head on a rock. By the time he washes ashore and is found by a distraught bear mother, he has forgotten who he is. The she-bear is convinced that he is her son, turned into a human by the Bear Spirit, and begins to train him for his new life. Can Yakari's friends find him before he disappears into his new world for good?
A strange eagle has wounded a brave from Yakari's tribe and stolen his talisman. To recover it and allow the man to wake from his unnatural slumber, young Yakari will have to climb a mountain to find the eagle's nest. Forced to go alone when Little Thunder can't follow anymore, he will have to make new friends-with sure feet and warm coats-and brave the majestic bird's proud anger.
Something very serious is happening in the High Hills. Several animals have disappeared. A terrible grizzly has captured them and treats them as slaves, forcing them to find food for him. Arming himself with courage, Yakari bravely decides to face the vile tyrant. But how can a child stand before the wild animal? Great Eagle advises Yakari to wait for winter, when the bear, satiated, will sleep...
Nanabozo, the Great Rabbit, is... well, a giant rabbit. He's also a powerful sorcerer, and Rainbow's spirit guide, as Great Eagle is for Yakari. When he appears to the young Sioux to tell him his charge has disappeared, little Yakari is swept up in a quest that will make him turn into a giant, run on smoke, fly, and travel to the ice banks where the polar bears play.
Yakari wakes up one morning to find a series of arrows forming a trail. Following it, he soon finds himself the exasperated victim of pranks, mockeries and other vexing tomfoolery by an unknown bear cub. The young joker's hideout is a massive burrow, with multiple galleries and entrances. It's all very innocent and tame, but even the most harmless of pranks can turn dangerous when bad luck strikes...
Yakari learns from the tribe's elder that the Sioux haven't always been the magnificent riders they are now - indeed, that there was a time they didn't even know what a horse was. Shaken, he speaks a little too demandingly to Little Thunder, wounding his four-legged friend who immediately runs away. Devastated, the young boy will have to track down his companion and find a way to earn his forgiveness if he ever wants to share a gallop with him again...
The Beavers are very worried: Linden Tree, Yakari's yound and mischievous friend, has lost his appetite for ... well, everything. And his people have no time to devote to him, as they must repair their precious dam, damaged by heavy rains. While the young Sioux attempts to dispel his friend's melancholy, Thousand-mouths suddenly realises he is several labourers short of a full work gang. Is something in the lake going after the hard-working beavers?
When a storm takes them by surprise, Yakari, his best friend Rainbow and his pony Little Thunder take cover in a cave. They discover when they come out of their refuge that the hill they are on is surrounded by rising water. On this new "island," they befriend a wounded moose threatened by a merciless predator...
Yakari en Kleine Bliksem stuiten op een kolonie bevers die druk bezig
is een dam te bouwen. Het zijn Smoelwerk, de humeurige opzichter;
Houten Dijk, de glimlachende oude wijze; Houten-Bed, de eeuwige
luilak; Tweetand, de immer geïnspireerde beeldhouwer... en vooral de
pientere Linde, een levenslustig jochie. Bij het zwemmen is de kleine
deugniet opeens verdwenen. Yakari vindt hem terug als hij de
ondergrondse loop van de rivier volgt. Linde krijgt natuurlijk zijn
eerste pak slaag (zijn vader Ruwe Schors heeft zich verschrikkelijk
ongerust gemaakt!) en Tweetand kan eindelijk zijn meesterwerk aan de
verblufte kolonie tonen.
Zoals afgesproken wacht Yakari zijn vriendinnetje Regenboog aan de
voet van de Rots van de Beer op. Plotseling verschijnen er enorme
oren aan de horizon. Ze zijn van Nanabozo, het Grote Konijn. De
grappige tovenaar vertelt Yakari dat hij de totem van Regenboog is,
aan wie hij tovermocassins heeft gegeven waarmee ze naar het land kan
reizen waar de beren wit als sneeuw zijn. Het meisje was zo ongeduldig dat ze al vertrokken is. Ze moeten haar achterna. Zo
begint een fantastische zwerftocht. Yakari en Nanabozo vinden
Regenboog terug. Gedrieën vliegen ze rond in een betoverde kano en
het wordt groot feest bij de ijsberen...
Overvallen door een onweer moeten Yakari, Regenboog en Kleine Bliksem
schuilen in een grot. Als ze hun schuilplaats eindelijk kunnen
verlaten, is de heuvel waarop ze zich bevinden omringd door snel
stijgend water. Ze zullen op hun eiland moeten blijven. Als ze hout
zoeken om een vuur te maken, ontdekt Yakari Berkeloot, een gewonde
jonge eland die door een verschrikkelijk roofdier wordt bedreigd: de
veelvraat. Plotseling verschijnt in de verte een kano met de vaders
die op zoek zijn naar hun kinderen. Yakari staat in tweestrijd: moet
hij naar hen toe gaan of het jonge dier redden? Zijn totem Grote
Adelaar geeft hem raad.
