CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
•PART ONE•
RABBIT BOY KICKED THAT BLOOD CLOT AROUND:
TALES OF HUMAN CREATION
RABBIT BOY (WHITE RIVER SIOUX)
BLOOD CLOT (SOUTHERN UTE)
CORN MOTHER (PENOBSCOT)
CREATION OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE (OKANOGAN)
STONE BOY (BRULE SIOUX)
THE POWERFUL BOY (SENECA)
GLOOSCAP AND THE BABY (ALCONQUIAN)
THE OLD WOMAN OF THE SPRING (CHEYENNE)
ARROW BOY (CHEYENNE)
THE GREAT MEDICINE DANCE (CHEYENNE)
THE ORIGIN OF CURING CEREMONIES (WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE
CREATION OF FIRST MAN AND FIRST WOMAN (NAVAJO)
HOW MEN AND WOMEN GOT TOGETHER (BLOOD-PIECAN)
THE WELL-BAKED MAN (PIMA)
THE WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN (BRULE SIOUX)
THE ORPHAN BOY AND THE ELK DOG (BLACKFOOT)
SALT WOMAN IS REFUSED FOOD (COCHITI)
THE SACRED WEED (BLACKFOOT)
HOW GRANDFATHER PEYOTE CAME TO THE INDIAN PEOPLE (BRULE SIOUX)
THE VISION QUEST (BRULE SIOUX)
PART TWO-
THE PLACE OF EMERGENCE:
TALES OF WORLD CREATION
THE GOOD TWIN AND THE EVIL TWIN (YUMA)
THE JICARILLA GENESIS (JICARILLA APACHE)
WHEN GRIZZLIES WALKED UPRIGHT MODOC
OLD MAN COYOTE MAKES THE WORLD (CROW)
HOW THE SIOUX CAME TO BE BRULE SIOUX)
PUSHING UP THE SKY (SNOHOMISH)
EMERGING INTO THE UPPER WORLD (ACOMA)
EARTH MAKING (CHEROKEE
THE BARTH DRACON (NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST)
PEOPLE BROUGHT IN A BASKET (MODOC) 109
GREAT MEDICINE MAKES A
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (CHEYENNE)
THE WHITE DAWN OF THE HOPI (HOPI)
CREATION OF THE YAKIMA WORLD (YAKIMA)
CHILDREN OF THE SUN (OSAGE)
THE VOICE, THE FLOOD, AND THE TURTLE (CADDO) A TALE OF ELDER BROTHER (PIMA)
•PART THREE
THE EYE OF THE GREAT SPIRIT:
TALES OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS SUN CREATION (BRULE SIOUX)
WALKS-ALL-OVER-THE-SKY (TSIMSHIAN)
THREE-LEGGED RABBIT FIGHTS THE SUN
(WESTERN ROCKIES)
COYOTE STEALS THE SUN AND MOON (ZUNI)
KEEPING WARMTH IN A BAG (SLAVEY)
THE HOPI BOY AND THE SUN (HOPI)
A GUST OF WIND (OJIBWAY) 150
DAUCHTER OF THE SUN (CHEROKEE)
GRANDMOTHER SPIDER STEALS THE SUN (CHEROKEE)
THE STORY OF THE CREATION (DIEGUEÑOS)
THE FOOLISH GIRLS (OJIBWAY)
MOON RAPES HIS SISTER SUN (INUIT)
SUN TEACHES VEEHO A LESSON (CHEYENNE)
LITTLE BROTHER SNARES THE SUN (WINNEBAGO)
THE SCABBY ONE LICHTS THE SKY (TOLTEC) PLAYING A TRICK ON THE MOON (SNOQUALMIE)
THE THEFT OF LIGHT (TSIMSHIAN)
COYOTE PLACES THE STARS (WASCO)
DEER HUNTER AND WHITE CORN MAIDEN (TEWA)
•PART FOU
ORDEALS OF THE HERO:
MONSTERS AND MONSTER SLAYERS 177
GLOOSCAP FIGHTS THE WATER MONSTER (PASSAMAQUODDY, MICMAC, AND MALISEET)
LITTLE-MAN-WITH-HAIR-ALL-OVER (MÉTIS)
HOW MOSQUITOES CAME TO BE (TLINGIT)
HIAWATHA THE UNIFIER (IROQUOIS)
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SWEET MEDICINE
(NORTHERN CHEYENNE)
THE QUILLWORK GIRL AND
HER SEVEN STAR BROTHERS (CHEYENNE)
ROLLING HEAD (WINTU)
SON OF LIGHT KILLS THE MONSTER (HOPI)
THE COMING OF THUNDER (MIWOK)
WAKINYAN TANKA, THE GREAT THUNDERBIRD (BRULE SIOUX)
COYOTE KILLS THE GIANT (FLATHEAD)
A LEGEND OF DEVIL'S TOWER (SIOUX)
THE FLYING HEAD (IROQUOIS)
THE FIRST SHIP (CHINOOK)
CHASE OF THE SEVERED HEAD (CHEYENNE)
UNCEGILA'S SEVENTH SPOT (BRULE SIOUX)
•PART FIVE•
COUNTING COUP: WAR AND THE WARRIOR CODE LITTLE MOUSE COUNTING COUP (BRULE SIOUX)
TWO BULLETS AND TWO ARROWS (BRULE SIOUX)
A CHEYENNE BLANKET (PAWNHE)
THE WARRIOR MAIDEN (ONEIDA)
THE SIEGE OF COURTHOUSE ROCK
(WHITE RIVER SIOUX)
CHIEF ROMAN NOSE LOSES HIS MEDICINE
(WHITE RIVER SIOUX)
BRAVE WOMAN COUNTS COUP (WHITE RIVER SIOUX)
SPOTTED EAGLE AND BLACK CROW (WHITE RIVER SIOUX)
WHERE THE GIRL SAVED HER BROTHER (CHEYENNE)
TATANKA IYOTAKE'S DANCING HORSE (BRULE SIOUX)
•PART SIX"
THE SOUND OF FLUTES:
TALES Of LOVE AND LUST
THE LECEND OF THE FLUTE (BRULE SIOUX)
TEACHING THE MUDHEADS
HOW TO COPULATE (ZUNT)
THE FICIT FOR A WIFE (ALEUT)
TEETH IN THE WRONG PLACES (PONCA-OTOE)
THE STOLEN WIFE (TEWA
TOLOWIM WOMAN AND BUTTERFLY MAN (MADU)
APACHE CHIEF PUNISHES HIS WIFE (TIWA)
THE HUSBAND'S PROMISE (TEWA)
THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE MOON (ISLETA PUEBLO) 298
WHY MOLE LIVES UNDERGROUND (CHEROKEE)
A LEGEND OF MULINOMAH FALLS (MULINOMAH)
THE INDUSTRIOUS DAUCHTER WHO
WOULD NOT MARRY (COCHITT)
THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A MERMAN (CoOs)
COYOTE'S STRAWBERRY (CROW)
THE FAITHEUL WIFE AND THE WOMAN WARRIOR (TIWA)
COYOTE AND THE MALLARD DUCKS (NEZ PERCÉ)
THE GREEDY FATHER (KAROK)
KULSHAN AND HIS TWO WIVES (LUMNI)
MEN AND WOMEN TRY LIVING APART (SIA)
A CONTEST FOR WIVES (COCHITI) 326
THE SERPENT OF THE SEA (ZUNI) 327
•PART SEVEn
COYOTE LAUGHS AND CRIES: TRICKSTER TALES 333
COYOTE, IKTOME, AND THE ROCK (WHITE RIVER SIOUX) 337
WHAT'S THIS? MY BALLS FOR YOUR DINNER?
(WHITE RIVER SIOUX) 339
COYOTE AND WASICHU (BRULE SIOUX) 342
HOW BEAVER STOLE FIRE FROM THE PINES (NEZ PERCÉ) 343
THE RAVEN (ATHAPASCAN) 344
THE BLUEBIRD AND COYOTE (PIMA) 346
ADVENTURES OF GREAT RABBIT (ALGONQUIAN) 347
TURKEY MAKES THE CORN AND COYOTE PLANIS IT (WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE) 352