List of Figures.
To The Reader.
Tewa.
1. Where They Were Living Lived Laughing Warrior Girl. . . .
Kalispell.
2. A Young Man (Rabbit) Lived With His Grandmother. One Day He Pitied Her. . ..
Kathlamet.
3. There Was A Chief Of A Town. His Relatives Live In Five Towns.
Tillamook.
4. Wild Woman Was Living Alone. Her Husband, High Class Crane, . . ..
Sioux.
5. A Man Lived With His Two Wives And A Brother. One Day The Brother. . ..
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Origins.
Cherokee (A).
6. In The Beginning There Was No Fire, And The World Was Cold, Until. . ..
Gros Ventre.
7. The People Before The Present People Were Wild. They Did Not Know. . ..
Cherokee (B).
8. When I Was A Boy This Is What The Old Men Told Me They Had Heard. . ..
Seneca (A).
9. A Long Time Ago Human Beings Lived High Up In What Is Now Called. . ..
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Seneca (B).
10. There Was A Lodge In The Forest Where Few People Ever Came. . ..
Eskimo.
11. Two Men Were Trappers. One Of Them Kept Catching A Lot Of Ground Hogs; . . ..
Cherokee (C).
12. Once When All The People Of The Settlement Were Out . . ..
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Trickster.
Three Chinook-Wishram Coyote Tales.
13. Coyote Heard About Two Women Who Had Fish. . ..
14. A Certain Old Man Was Sitting In The Trail With His Penis. . ..
15. Again Coyote Travelled Up The River. In The Water He Saw. . ..
Clackamas (A).
16. Coyote And His Five Children Lived There, Four Males, . . ..
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Clackamas (B).
17. They Lived There, Seal, Her Daughter, And Seal's Younger Brother. . . ..
Hopi.
18. In Oraibi The People Were Living. At The West End Of The South Row. . ..
Wintu.
19. Long Ago There Came Into Being Some People Who Had Four Children,. . . .
Yana.
20. ' Now Dig For Roots. The Nuts Are Already Ripe - Let's Climb. . .'.
Navajo--Mountain Chant Myth.
21. On The Morrow, When He Went Forth On His Hunt, His Father. . ..
Blackfoot.
22. 'There Are Two Bright Stars,' Brings-Down-The-Sun Said, 'That Sometimes. . .'.
Onondaga.
23. Tall, Fierce, And Hostile, They Were A Powerful Tribe, The Stone Giants!.
Further Reading.
Index