How People Were Made (Miwok) Retold from various late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century sources.
Coyote Steals the Summer (Crow) Retold from many variations.
Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead (Yakima) From Ella Clark, Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press), 1953.
Coyote Steals Fire (Klamath) Retold from early-nineteenth-century sources.
Coyote Kills Terrible Monster (Salish) Retold from a combination of early sources.
The Seven Devils Mountains (Nez Percé) Retold from Clark, Indian Legendsof the Pacific Northwest. And from an account by Caleb Whitman, a Nez Percé, told to Alfonso Ortiz on the Umatilla Reservation, August 1950.
Part Two: Up to No Good
Coyote Taunts the Grizzly Bear (Kutenai) Retold from Franz Boas, Kutenai Tales, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 59 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1918.
How Locust Tricked Coyote (Zuni) Retold from earlier sources.
Coyote-Giving (Paiute) Retold from a combination of early sources.
Putting a Saddle on Coyote’s Back (Northern Pueblo) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
A Satisfying Meal (Hopi) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
A Strong Heart (Arikara) From George A. Dorsey, Traditions of the Arikara (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute), 1904.
Better Luck Next Time (Hopi) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Long Ears Outsmarts Coyote (Pueblo) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Old Man Coyote and the Buffalo (Crow) From S. C. Simms, Traditions of the Crows,Field Columbian Museum Publication 85, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Chicago: Field Columbian Museum), 1903.
Coyote and Bobcat Have Their Faces Done (Ute) Retold from various early sources.
The Adventures of a Meatball (Comanche) From Elliot Canonge, Comanche Texts (Arlington, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics), 1958.
Coyote Gets Stuck (Shasta) Retold from Roland Dixon, “Shasta Myths,” Journal of American Folklore 23, 1910, and other sources.
Anything but Piñon Pitch! (Navajo) From William Morgan, Coyote Tales (Phoenix: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix Indian School Print Shop), 1954.
Fat, Grease, and Berries (Crow) From Simms, Traditions of the Crows.
Don’t Be Too Curious (Lakota) John Fire Lame Deer, from tape recordings by Richard Erdoes, 1969—1975.
Part Three: Coyote’s Amorous Adventures
Coyote’s Amorous Adventures (Shasta) Livingston Farrand, “Shasta & Athabascan Myths from Oregon,” Journal of American Folklore 28, 1915.
Two Rascals and Their Wives (Pueblo) This is one of many versions of a commonly told tale.
Coyote Sleeps with His Own Daughters (Southern Ute) Retold from a combination of half a dozen versions, collected between 1900 and 1932.
Old Man Coyote Meets Coyote Woman (Blackfoot) Retold from various sources.
Coyote and Fox Dress Up (Nez Percé) Retold from various sources, including Herbert Spinden, Nez Percé Tales, Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Vol. 6 (New York: G. E. Stechert), 1917.
Coyote and the Girls (Karok and Yurok) Retold from Austen D. Warburton and Joseph F. Endert, Indian Lore of the North CaliforniaCoast (Santa Clara, CA: Pacific Pueblo Press), 1966.
Coyote Keeps His Dead Wife’s Genitals (Lipan Apache) Retold from Myths and Legends of the Lipan Apache Indians, Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Vol. 36 (New York: G. E. Stechert), 1940.
The Toothed Vagina (Yurok) Jean Sapir, “Yurok Tales,” Journal of American Folklore 41, 1928.
Something Fishy Going On (Athapascan) Retold from the nineteenth-century stories gathered by Livingston Farrand and others in Journal of American Folklore 28, 1915.
Where Do Babies Come From? (Karuk) From John P. Harrington, “Karuk Indian Myths,” Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 107 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1932.
Winyan-shan Upside Down (Sioux) George Eagle Elk, from tape recording by Richard Erdoes, Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, 1975.
Part Four: The Trouble with Rose Hips
Coyote, Skunk, and the Beavers (Wichita) George A. Dorsey, Mythologyof Wichita,Field Columbian Museum (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute), 1904.
Monster Skunk Farting Everyone to Death (Cree) Retold from various nineteenth-century sources.
Coyote Sells a Burro That Defecates Money (Lipan Apache) Melville Jacobs, Santiam Kalapuya MythTexts (Seattle: University of Washington Press), 1945.
Coyote the Credulous (Taos) Elsie Clews Parson, Taos Tales, Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society 34 (New York: J. J. Augustin), 1940.
The Trouble with Rose Hips (Lipan Apache) Myths and Legend of the Lipan Apache.
Part Five: Iktomi the Spider-Man
Seven Toes (Assiniboine) From Robert H. Lowie, The Assiniboine, American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers 4, Part I (New York: American Museum of Natural History), November 1909.
Tricking the Trickster (Sioux) From George Eagle Elk tape.
Iktomi and the Man-Eating Monster (Lakota) From Lame Deer tapes.
Iktomi, Flint Boy, and the Grizzly (Lakota) From Lame Deer tapes.
Iktomi and the Buffalo Calf (Assiniboine) Robert H. Lowie, The Assiniboine.
Ikto’s Grandchild Defeats Siyoko (Rosebud Sioux) Told to the authors by Jenny Leaning Cloud, White River, South Dakota, 1968.
The Cheater Cheated (Lakota) From Lame Deer tapes, 1971—1972.
The Spider Cries “Wolf” (Rosebud Sioux) From Lame Deer tapes.
Tit for Tat (Omaha) Told to the authors after a ceremonial gathering at Crow Dog’s place, Rosebud, South Dakota, 1969.
Iktomi Takes Back a Gift (Rosebud Sioux) From tape recordings by Richard Erdoes at Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota.
Iktomi and the Wild Ducks (Minneconjou Sioux) Lame Deer tapes, 1969.
Iktomi Trying to Outrace Beaver (Santee) Ida Lame Deer, interview with Richard Erdoes, Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, 1968.
Too Smart For His Own Good (Sioux) Jake Herman, from tape recordings by Richard Erdoes, Parmelee Rodeo, 1964.
Part Six: Spider-Man in Love
Oh, It’s You! (Lakota) Lame Deer tapes.
Too Many Women (Lakota) Bill Schweigman, from tape recordings by the authors, 1969.
Forbidden Fruit (Lakota and Rosebud Sioux) Lame Deer tapes, 1970.
The Spiders Give Birth to the People (Arikara) Retold from George A. Dorsey, Traditions of the Arikara (Washington, DC: Carnegie Institute), 1904.
The Winkte Way (Omaha) Told to the authors at Rosebud Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, 1971.
Part Seven: The Veeho Cycle
He Has Been Saying Bad Things About You (Northern Cheyenne) Strange Owl, interview by the authors, Birney, Montana, summer 1972.
The Possible Bag (Northern Cheyenne) Strange Owl.
Hair Loss (Northern Cheyenne) Strange Owl.
Brother, Sharpen My Leg! (Cheyenne) From Journal of the American Folklore 13, 1900.
Veeho Has His Back Scraped (Northern Cheyenne) Strange Owl.
He Sure Was a Good Shot (Cheyenne) Richard Erdoes, notes taken at Birney and Busby, Montana, 1971-1972.
The Only Man Around (Northern Cheyenne) Strange Owl.
Part Eight: The Nixant and Sitconski Cycles
When the People Were Wild (Gros Ventre) From A. L. Kroeber, Gros Ventre Myths and Tales, American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers 8, Part III (New York: American Museum of Natural History), 1907.
The Talking Penis (Gros Ventre) Kroeber, Gros Ventre Myths and Tales.
Hairy Legs (Gros Ventre) Kroeber, Gros Ventre Myths and Tales.
Sitconski and the Buffalo Skull (Assiniboine) Lowie, The Assiniboine.
She Refused to Have Him (Assiniboine) Lowie, The Assiniboine.
Ni‘hancan and Whirlwind Woman (Arapaho) From George A. Dorsey, Tradition of the Arapaho, Field Columbian Museum Publications in Anthropology, Publication 81, Vol. 5 (Chicago: Fi
eld Columbian Museum), 1903.
Ni‘hancan and the Race for Wives (Arapaho) G. Dorsey, Tradition of the Arapaho.
Part Nine: Magical Master Rabbit
Little Rabbit Fights the Sun (Ute) Retold and abbreviated after J. W. Powell, Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians, Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 1 (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1879.
The Long Black Stranger (Omaha) Retold from various early sources.
Why the Possum’s Tail Is Bare (Cherokee) From James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee, Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 19 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1897-1898.
Rabbit Escapes from the Box (Creek) From John R. Swanton, Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 88 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1929.
Rabbit and Possum on the Prowl (Cherokee) Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee. ‘
Tar Baby (Biloxi) From J. Owen Dorsey, “Two Biloxi Tales,” Journal of American Folklore 5, 1892.
Don’t Believe What People Tell You (San Ildefonso and San Juan) From notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Part Ten: Nanabozho and Whiskey Jack
Nanabozho and the Fish Chief (Great Lakes Tribes) Retold from various nineteenth-century sources.
Why We Have to Work So Hard Making Maple Sugar (Menomini) Abbreviated and retold from Walter James Hoffman, The Menomini Indians, Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 14, Part I (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1896.
Who Is Looking Me in the Face? (Menomini) Retold from Hoffman, The Menomini Indians.
Why Women Have Their Moon-Time (Menomini) Retold from Hoffman, The Menomini Indians.
Whiskey Jack Wants to Fly (Cree and Métis) Oohosis-Desjarlais, from tape recordings by the authors, 1971—1972. See also Journal of American Folklore 42, 1929.
Wesakaychak, the Windigo, and the Ermine (Cree and Métis) Oohosis-Desjarlais tape, 1972.
Part Eleven: Old Man Napi Chooses a Wife
Choosing Mates (Blackfoot) From James Willard Schultz, Blackfoot Tales of Glacier National Park, Montana (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press), 1916; and from George Bird Grinnell, Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne (New York: Charles Scribner), 1913.
Napi Races Coyote for a Meal (Blackfoot) From Percy Bullchild, The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Elders Told It (San Francisco: Harper & Row), 1985.
Magic Leggings (Blackfoot) Retold from various nineteenth-century sources.
Part Twelve: Glooskap the Great
How the Lord of Men and Beasts Strove with the Mighty Wasis and Was Shamefully Defeated (Penobscot) From Charles Godfrey Leland, Algonquin Legends of New England; or, Myths and Folklore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penoboscot Tribes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), 1884.
Glooskap Turns Men into Rattlesnakes (Passamaquoddy) Maynard Stanley, interview with the authors, New York, 1974.
Kuloskap and the Ice-Giants (Passamaquoddy) From John Dineley Prince, Passamaquoddy Texts, American Ethnological Society Publications 10 (New York: G. E. Stechert), 1921.
Questions, Questions (Passamaquoddy) From nineteenth century-sources and from Stanley notes.
A New Way to Travel (Micmac) Retold from various 1880s sources.
Glooskap Grants Four Wishes (Micmac) Retold from various nineteenth-century sources.
A Puff of His Pipe (Micmac) Anna Mae Aquash, interviewed by the authors, New York, 1974.
Part Thirteen: Skeleton Man
While the Gods Snored (Hopi) Retold from various early sources, including Alexander M. Stephen, “Hopi Tales,” Journal of American Folklore 42, 1929.
How Masaaw Slept with a Beautiful Maiden (Hopi) From Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway‘ma, Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God, American Tribal Religions 10 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press), 1987.
Scared to Death (Hopi) Malotki and Lomatuway‘ma, Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God.
Part Fourteen: Raven Lights the World
Hungry for Clams (Hoh and Quileute) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Give It Back! Give It Back! (Haida) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Raven Steals the Moon (Haida) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Yehl, the Lazy One (Haida) Retold from various sources.
Raven and His Slave (Tsimshian) Retold from Franz Boas, Tsimshian Mythology, Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 31 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1916.
A Lousy Fisherman (Haida) Abbreviated and retold from various early sources.
Raven Lights the World (Tlingit) From late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century sources.
INDEX OF TALES
Adventures of a Meatball, The
Anything but Piñon Pitch!
Beginning of the World, The
Better Luck Next Time
Brother, Sharpen My Leg!
Cheater Cheated, The
Choosing Mates
Coyote and Bobcat Have Their Faces Done
Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead
Coyote and Fox Dress Up
Coyote and the Girls
Coyote Gets Stuck
Coyote-Giving
Coyote Keeps His Dead Wife’s Genitals
Coyote Kills Terrible Monster
Coyote’s Amorous Adventures
Coyote Sells a Burro That Defecates Money
Coyote, Skunk, and the Beavers
Coyote Sleeps with His Own Daughters
Coyote Steals Fire
Coyote Steals the Summer
Coyote Steals the Sun
Coyote Taunts the Grizzly Bear
Coyote the Credulous
Don’t Believe What People Tell You
Don’t Be Too Curious
Fat, Grease, and Berries
Forbidden Fruit
Give It Back! Give It Back!
Glooskap Grants Four Wishes
Glooskap Turns Men into Rattlesnakes
Hair Loss
Hairy Legs
He Has Been Saying Bad Things About You
He Sure Was a Good Shot
How Locust Tricked Coyote
How Masaaw Slept with a Beautiful Maiden
How People Were Made
How the Lord of Men and Beasts Strove with the Mighty Wasis and Was Shamefully Defeated
Hungry for Clams
Iktomi and the Buffalo Calf
Iktomi and the Man-Eating Monster
Iktomi and the Wild Ducks
Iktomi, Flint Boy, and the Grizzly
Iktomi Takes Back a Gift
Iktomi Trying to Outrace Beaver
Ikto’s Grandchild Defeats Siyoko
Little Rabbit Fights the Sun
Long Black Stranger, The
Long Ears Outsmarts Coyote
Lousy Fisherman, A
Magic Leggings
Monster Skunk Farting Everyone to Death
Nanabozho and the Fish Chief
Napi Races Coyote for a Meal
New Way to Travel, A
Ni‘hancan and the Race for Wives
Ni‘hancan and Whirlwind Woman
Oh, It’s You!
Old Man Coyote and the Buffalo
Old Man Coyote Meets Coyote Woman
Only Man Around, The
Origin of the Moon and the Sun
Possible Bag, The
Puff of His Pipe, A
Putting a Saddle on Coyote’s Back
Questions, Questions
Rabbit Escapes from the Box
Rabbit and Possum on the Prowl
Raven and His Slave
Raven Lights the World
Raven Steals the Moon
Satisfying Meal, A
Scared to Death
Seven Devils Mountains, The
Seven Toes
She Refused to Have Him
Sitconski and the Buffalo Skull
Something Fishy Going On
Spider Cries “Wolf,” The
Spiders Give Birth to the People, The
St
rong Heart, A
Sun and Moon in a Box
Talking Penis, The
Tar Baby
Tit for Tat
Too Many Women
Too Smart for His Own Good
Toothed Vagina, The
Tricking the Trickster
Trouble with Rose Hips, The
Two Rascals and Their Wives
Veeho Has His Back Scraped
Wesakaychak, the Windigo, and the Ermine
When the People Were Wild
Where Do Babies Come From?
While the Gods Snored
Whiskey Jack Wants to Fly
Who Is Looking Me in the Face?
Why the Possum’s Tail Is Bare
Why We Have to Work So Hard Making Maple Sugar
Why Women Have Their Moon-Time
Winkte Way, The
Winyan-shan Upside Down
Yehl, the Lazy One
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In Arapaho the word for whirlwind is the same as for caterpillar.
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