Indian Tales is a collection of connected short narratives written and illustrated by Jaime de Angulo, published by A.

[1] The stories revolve around an anthropomorphic animal family traveling across California, and encountering various mythological figures, such as Old Man Coyote, Loon Woman, and various animal tribes who live as the indigenous peoples of California did in pre-European times.

The book is an imaginative retelling of many of the folktales and myths collected by de Angulo as an erstwhile anthropologist.

[3][4] De Angulo writes in the foreword, "When you find yourself searching for some mechanical explanation, if you don't know the answer, invent one.

It is no effort, of course, to be pleased by the sure touch — stories and animal drawings that are poetry, innate, humor-born, and wise."