Richly illustrated , The Fish Skin is a tale about the Cree. The Cree is a Native American tribe that believes that the universe is a circle and everything follows cycles and has equal importance. I’m the book things in nature such as the sun and clouds are personified making sense of people communicating with them. One day the tribe complained about clouds and rain and wished only the sun would shine. The Cloud disappeared as Grandfather Sun baked the camp of the Cree. All the inhabitants almost died from the drought but a young boy went into the woods to seek help from Wísahkecàhk. He told the great spirit that the Cree learned their lesson and promised to value the clouds as much as the sun , Wísahkecàhk gave the young boy the power to restore the clouds and rain to his people since they learned from their mistake. Now the people of Cree will always value all weather as it maintains balance. ( )